Zoning
As Portland Fights ICE With Land-Use Regulations, Will Zoning Survive Trump?
Portland's attempt to rein in ICE could trigger a battle over the constitutionality of zoning.
Revitalizing Cities With Small-Scale Manufacturing
One Rust Belt city is pursuing an innovative strategy to attract economic development and enhance urban livability.
Op-Ed: A City Is Not A Cake
There's no recipe to building a great city. So why are so many zoning and road design policies written like there is — and how can loosening standards make cities less car dependent?
Talking Headways Podcast: Stuck with Yoni Appelbaum
Yoni Appelbaum on the history of moving in the United States and how the different traditions of land ownership and management in America evolved.
Court Ruling Paves the Way For Mass. to Sue Towns With Exclusionary Zoning Laws
A hotly anticipated ruling from the Commonwealth’s Supreme Judicial Court affirms that the state government has a clear authority to sue cities and towns that insist on preserving segregationist zoning laws near MBTA stations, in violation of the state’s new MBTA Communities Law.
Talking Headways Podcast: Zoning for Vermicelli
Sara Bronin on her book Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and why zoning is an opportunity for people to reshape their communities.
NYC Won’t Even Eliminate Parking Mandates at Transit-Oriented Development
Here's a case study in how far even one of the nation's most progressive cities still has to go.
Should Communities That Suppress Housing Lose Their Road Funding?
A Colorado bill would require sprawling cities to take action to increase their affordable housing supply before they collect money to build more roads — and some want to take it national.
Austin Becomes The Largest U.S. City to Eliminate Parking Minimums
The Violet Crown City voted to make the change months ago — but now that a revision of the city's byzantine zoning code is finally done, the law will actually go into effect.
Analysis: Everyone Agrees — Less Parking Means More Housing
Let's take a second-day look at Mayor Adams's "City of Yes" zoning proposal to do away with mandatory parking in new developments.
