Development Regulations
Feature
Managing development at the scale of megaregions is possible. An excerpt from the recently published book, "Designing for the Megaregion: Meeting Urban Challenges at a New Scale," written by Jonathan Barnett, explains how.
Places with a lot of Millennials are building homes, just not enough to keep pace with the large number of Millennials coming of homebuying age.
CNBC
The Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission has proposed a truly radical development requirement for private developments in the city's downtown: spaces for the homeless.
Willamette Week
Blog post
To increase affordability communities should support moderate-priced housing development. This increases housing options for middle-income households, and for lower-income through filtering, as households move from low- to moderate-priced units.
A major change to planning paradigms in the city of Seattle.
The Urbanist
Digging into the city of Everett's recent overhaul of its zoning and development regulations in Downtown and adjacent neighborhoods.
The Urbanist
Expensive West Coast cities are looking to these alternative and add-on structures to ease their housing challenges.
SF Gate
More Americans are moving to high-risk flood zones as environmental deregulation wins the day.
Governing
The city of Houston approved a new development that doesn't meet new elevations standards approved by the city of Houston earlier this month.
Houston Chronicle
It was the city's "first major regulatory response" to Hurricane Harvey.
Houston Chronicle
Population growth creates a collision course in the American West.
Voice of San Diego
How many now-classic design features are actually tax-avoidance strategies?
99% Invisible
Harris County, home to Houston and the scene of widespread devastation during Hurricane Harvey and other weather events, will make large-scale changes to development regulations on floodplains for the first time in almost 20 years.
Houston Chronicle
Most cities know they need new development regulations, but it's much, much easier said than done.
At Lincoln House
As the remnants of Hurricane Harvey headed for Louisville, city officials were approving new legislation that enacts more stringent development standards in areas in flood prone areas.
Courier-Journal
