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Should We Allow More Homes to Be Built in Existing Neighborhoods?
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 2022By Amy Dain, November 28, 2022A new law in Massachusetts requires towns served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency to enact zoning that allows multifamily housing near transit. In response, 175 communities are working...
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Shifting Gears
Why Communities Are Eliminating Off-Street Parking Requirements—and What Comes NextRevista Land LinesOctubre 2022By Catie Gould, October 12, 2022For the last century, communities across the United States have stipulated that commercial and residential developments must offer plenty of parking. Today the country has at least three available...
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President’s Message: Zoning’s Asteroid Moment
Revista Land LinesOctubre 2022By George W. McCarthy, October 4, 2022Zoning reform is gaining momentum in the United States, as policy makers seek to advance affordability and address a legacy of spatial segregation by race and class.
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Land Matters Podcast: A Booming Bay Area City Confronts an Affordability Crisis
Revista Land LinesSeptiembre 2022By Anthony Flint, September 26, 2022Berkeley, California, is a classic case of a built-up city facing tensions over future development. In this candid interview, Mayor Jesse Arreguín talks about the need to make the city more affordable by clearing the way for new housing and discouraging s
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Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform
Lessons from Oregon’s House Bill 2001Documentos de trabajoJulio 2021Michael AndersenIn 2019, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind state law that ordered larger cities and the Portland metro area to rapidly legalize duplexes on all residential lots and fourplexes, triplexes, townhomes,...
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The Eight Deaths of Portland’s Residential Infill Project
Documentos de trabajoJulio 2021Michael AndersenIn 2020, Portland became the largest modern U.S. city to end so-called “single-family zoning,” legalizing up to four market-rate homes on almost any residential lot, or up to six homes on...
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Scenario Planning for Smaller Places
Aligning Methods and ContextDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2020Robert Goodspeed and David DeBoskeyEmpirical studies of the use of scenarios in planning processes have often focused on projects that are relatively atypical of broader professional planning practice, such as large, novel, complex...
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Harnessing Technology to Accelerate Land Protection
GIS at The Trust for Public LandDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2019Will RogersBy developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...
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Rezoning History
Influential Minneapolis Policy Shift Links Affordability, EquityRevista Land LinesEnero 2020By Kathleen McCormick, January 16, 2020
A new citywide ban on single-family zoning mandates density and multifamily housing in Minneapolis — and addresses the enduring effects of a century of regulations that discriminated against...
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Land Matters Podcast
Episode 5: How One Midwestern City Is Trying to Stay AffordableRevista Land LinesSeptiembre 2019By Anthony Flint, September 30, 2019Minneapolis has passed some of the most progressive housing policies and zoning reforms in the country, and other cities—including those on the coasts struggling to overcome an affordability crisis—are taking notice.
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