Topic – Zoning
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Lisa Hymas
Romney's smart growth program
Romney, once an anti-sprawl crusader, created model for Obama ‘smart growth’ program
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Kaid Benfield
Making smart growth legal
DC zoning update seeks to legalize, encourage better neighborhoods
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Robert Steuteville
Why cities are unaffordable
Cities and towns would do better to focus on more effective regulations.
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Los Angeles changing zoning codes
First major reform since 1946
Los Angeles looks to streamline its planning process, its first major reform to zoning since '46.
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Denver approves new zoning code
Legalizing urbanism
On Monday, June 21st, Denver City Council approved a new zoning code, the first comprehensive changes to the code since…
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Zoning overhauls reshaping New York City
City becoming more sustainable
By re-zoning 20 percent of the city, the Bloomberg administration hopes to direct new growth to transit-oriented neighborhoods.
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Miami approves form-based code
Largest US city to do so
Miami became the largest US city to adopt form-based code, which will make it much easier to build walkable urban areas than under conventional zoning codes.
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Houstonians want better urban planning
New Houston Chronicle poll
Houstonians want tighter land use controls according to a Zogby survey published by the Houston Chronicle
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KHOU interview with David Crossley: ‘Zoning’s not the issue’
We need a plan for growth
KHOU Channel 11 recently asked David Crossley what adding over 3 million people will mean for the city, and whether zoning has a future here.
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