How Single-Stair Reform Can Help Unlock Incremental Housing
Modern zoning, building and fire codes make it impossible to build many of the types of housing that people actually want to live in. Reforming those codes to allow for single-stair construction can help undo some of this damage.
Highway Pollution Near Multifamily Homes Hurts Residents, but Zoning and Transportation Reform Could Help
New Urban research shows high-density housing in Los Angeles is disproportionately concentrated near high-traffic roads compared with single-family homes, exposing apartment residents to the adverse health effects of pollution.
The Future of Land Use and Incremental Development
Land use reform is gaining momentum and laws are evolving rapidly across North America. Here are some changes that are likely coming in the future and what impacts they might have.
St. Pete is on the precipice of major zoning changes in this up-and-coming neighborhood
The zoning reform effort represents a significant step toward a more progressive land-use policy that will give property owners flexibility and, city officials hope, result in more housing units affordable for middle-class households.
Mayor Kraham proposes new zoning rules to help bring new projects
Zoning reform could be coming to the city of Binghamton. Mayor Jared Kraham says it will decrease development costs, supporting new construction. Planned reforms eliminate or reduce some requirements
Rethinking roads as public spaces – what NZ cities can learn from Barcelona’s ‘superblock’ urban design
New Zealand tends to focus on big infrastructural projects such as tunnels or light rail to change cities. But there are cheaper ways to add public spaces to urban design.
In this multi-part series, we join an analysis of a novel database of municipal zoning reform efforts across the United States with an argument for the necessity of a tenant-inflected zoning reform, as a method and approach to ground future zo
Land-use reform efforts could bring 135K new homes to downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood
To address its acute housing shortage, the city is allowing greater housing density, relaxing parking requirements and creating affordable housing incentives and mandates in updates to decades-old community plans.
How does our obsession with parking square with zoning a city?
As Boise citizens weigh in on a once-in-a-generation rewrite of the city’s zoning code, there are a select few issues that make the shortlist of concerns: density, movability, and parking. This is why the New York Times bestseller, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World, is such a must-read.
Parking minimums and other zoning laws have made American cities untenable for any other type of transportation. It’s time we find a new way to zone our cities.
Congress Funds New ‘YIMBY’ Grants for Zoning Reform
Congress passes a new $85 million grant program aimed at zoning reform. The funding represents a new and significant incentive and support for local zoning reform and planning for housing affordability.
This page describes a variety of tools useful to federal, state, tribal, regional, and local government staff and elected officials; community leaders; developers; and others interested in smart growth development.
Car Dependency Starts in the Parking Lot | Kittelson & Associates, Inc.
The way we plan and build our transportation systems has a direct impact on us. Our industry has recognized that many patterns of these transportation systems originate in the parking lot.