Flaky residential zoning has no place in a Strong Town!
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Just as kids ignore sidewalks in favor of walking a more efficient path through the grass, homeowners in California are voting with their toolbelts to create zoning desire paths.
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New Zealand just passed the first national policy to both end parking requirements and allow the next increment of (residential) development everywhere. I.e., two major items on the Strong Towns wish list.
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The author of Happy City helped build a home that addressed some of the greatest challenges of our times. But his home is illegal almost everywhere in his city—and in your city, too.
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California's Senate Bill 9 has sparked controversy, mainly among owners of single-family homes. But are we returning to historic forms of housing anyway, with or without state legislation?
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What kind of zoning reform do we need in order to build strong towns?
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Incremental development today is far from the path of least resistance. To do it, you'll need the ability to navigate dozens of regulatory barriers.
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Living with extended family is something Americans often associate with immigrant households. But why?
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SB 9 just passed in California, effectively ending single-family zoning there. The open question is, "What now?" Will anything actually change?
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Big, complicated zoning codes create an environment that gives developers no smaller-scale competition.
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This small city in Washington has been quietly making some very big zoning changes…
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In 2016, Portland enacted an Inclusionary Housing policy affecting buildings of 20+ units. The result? The city now has a bunch of new 19-unit buildings. Let’s talk about intervening in a system as complex and adaptive as the housing market.
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A lot of supposedly "innovative" proposals are for things that have long existed in neighborhoods, but you wouldn't know it based on the language that planners use.
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One of the realities about cities is that they change—but in America, most cities are trapped in a regulatory environment that makes change extremely costly.
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A guide for making your urban spaces more fine-grained.
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Many critiques of “boxy buildings” focus on aesthetics. But the big problem isn’t so much the shape as the scale.
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If “That Guy” is at every public hearing, there's something wrong with how your city is doing development.
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Something remarkable is happening this year in City Halls across America.
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If broad upzoning often fails due to political resistance, the solution may be to allow for more localized decision making.
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There are only a couple reforms Strong Towns recommends unequivocally for every town and city. Sacramento just passed both of them…unanimously…in one evening.
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