Land Use
An Orange County developer is successfully marketing dwelling units that owners can legally use to receive customers and hire employees in a suburban residential setting.
The Los Angeles Times
State's economic pain sows seeds of prosperity.
Michigan Land Use Institute
Houston, Texas is the only large American city with no formal zoning code. Does it matter?
Planetizen
Environmentalists and residents of Anne Arundel County, MD are worried by the recent development of old waterfront properties that predate current and tougher development regulations.
The Baltimore Sun
Design-based coding is gaining popularity in Macon County's stalled planning process.
The Smoky Mountain News
A recent study by Northern Illinois University recommends that 'counties and municipalities be given greater statutory power to coordinate land-use planning in shared transportation corridors.'
The Chicago Tribune
Sam Bass Warner Jr. reflects on the meaning of private property against the changing landscape of land use and ownership.
The Hartford Courant
As nearly 60% of residents in Carroll County, MD commute to work, regional planners are proposing new zoning designations that would attract more businesses and light manufacturing to the county.
The Baltimore Sun
An editorial asserts that the founding fathers would not have approved of the smart growth movement.
Columbia Free Times
Urban sprawl's impact on school funding is more of a smart growth issue than is commonly realized.
Planetizen
A statewide housing task force recommends paying towns to 'approve new residences near transit stops, in towns centers and abandoned industrial areas.'
The Boston Globe
By 2025 nearly half of Americans will be cremated. A dramatic rise in the number of crematories has many communities worried about zoning and pollution.
The Los Angeles Times
What will be the fate of growth restrictions imposed over the past 4 years in Loudoun County, Virginia?
The Washington Post
Historic towns and farms located on the outskirts of Beijing are being engulfed by urban sprawl.
The Chicago Tribune
A former reporter writes a scathing book about innocent citizens who find themselves overwhelmed by draconian laws -- many of them land use and environmental.
Tech Central Station
Suburbs boom in the nation's new "low-SPF Sunbelt.
USA Today
Governor-elect of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger favors restoration of declining urban environments. His website criticizes "fiscally unsustainable sprawl" and promises new incentives revitalization of blighted areas.
Orange County Register
Malls have been replaced by big-box superstores as the new town square. How long will it be until they have to surrender control to people exercising their free-speech rights?
LA Weekly
In a "revolutionary action, anti-sprawl voters in Ann Arbor, MI, agree to a new tax to buy and preserve open space.
The Detroit News
Building owners block access to previously agreed upon easement.
The Oregonian
