Strong Towns Huntsville is the local conversation (chapter) of the national non-profit Strong Towns. The goal of Strong Towns is to create stronger communities by shifting away from car focused development patterns to people focused development patterns.

What this means in Huntsville is more spaces where people can feel safe walking, biking, and playing. Destinations, such as schools and parks, should be built to prioritize pedestrian safety over car traffic throughput.

This also means a focus on building more densely with mixed-use zoning. This doesn’t mean skyscrapers in every neighborhood, this means allowing ADUs and retail everywhere in the city. Every neighborhood doesn’t need tens of millions of dollars in building permits. Density and walkable neighborhoods can be achieved through simple zoning law changes that allow more multi-family homes and small businesses to exist in neighborhoods.

What these approaches achieve is a safer community for kids and adults to live in. It allows for more affordable way of living, as building more housing keeps housing prices affordable, and creating walkable neighborhoods allows your household to reducing spending on car expenses.

A few things Strong Towns Huntsville supports:
-Legalizing ADUs city-wide
-Create safer streets in front of schools, allowing more students to safely walk and bike to school.
-Eliminate parking minimums, allowing more density in areas that need it.
-More car free zones, giving more space to pedestrian and cyclist traffic. Closing the section of Church Street that splits up Big Spring Park to car traffic is one example of this.

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