In Worcester's rapidly changing urban landscape, safeguarding the city's most vulnerable road users (VRU’s) — pedestrians, cyclists, and others outside of vehicles — has emerged as a pivotal concern. This report comes after recent tragedies in Worcester, leading the City Manager to declare a ‘road safety and traffic violence crisis’.

Parking is king. For as long as there have been cars, it has been a subject of conversation in Worcester. This report, Part 2 of a two part Bureau series on parking, covers the history of parking in Worcester, followed by a discussion of minimum parking requirements in the City’s zoning, as well as information about car ownership in Worcester, and an analysis of the ways that parking may impose visible and invisible costs on residents and commuters.

PARKING, is a difficult issue in many cities. Plentiful parking is necessary where the personal automobile is the dominant mode of transportation; and even if other modes predominate, some amount of parking is still necessary.

The inaugural edition of Insights Insider, “Introducing Worcester County Insights”, explores the datasets that are used in the dashboard, highlights the dashboard's useful features and sample visualizations, and notes its value to specific stakeholders such as municipal officials, not-for-profits, businesses, community or advocacy organizations, higher education institutions, and more.

Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is a key economic engine for municipalities. It provides space for jobs for the community, provides own economic value through its use and outputs, and serves as an important source of revenue for City governments.

The WRRB's Broadband Explorer is an interactive tool to show broadband status and other selected data on a Census Tract by Census Tract basis (or Zip Code if only available) for households in Auburn, Boylston, Grafton, Holden, Leicester, Millbury, Paxton, Shrewsbury, West Boylston, and Worcester.

This report provides an overview of Worcester's public school facilities, detailing the MSBA's involvement in repair and construction projects, the City and District's initiatives to improve learning environments, and a secondary examination of the District's 2017 Facilities Master Plan.

Worcester Now | Next officially kicked off in 2022, and aims to be finished and adopted in spring 2024. The draft plan, currently public, is open to public comment until February 25th.

Introduction: As of the 2023-24 academic year, Worcester Public Schools (WPS) enrolls an impressive 24,350 scholars across 45 elementary, middle, and high schools collectively.

ON JULY 1, 2024, both an updated Stretch Code and the Municipal Opt-In Specialized Stretch Code will go into effect in Worcester. While Worcester is already a stretch code community, the City Council voted to adopt the specialized stretch code in September 2023.