Streamlining housing growth: what Baltimore’s zoning reforms mean for cities nationwide
The core of Baltimore’s reforms is regulatory simplification. By removing a mandated minimum of off‑street parking, the city lowers one ...
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The core of Baltimore’s reforms is regulatory simplification. By removing a mandated minimum of off‑street parking, the city lowers one ...
Read moreDetailsRemoving parking minimums can increase the flexibility to use small undeveloped or underdeveloped parcels for “missing middle” forms of housing, ...
Read moreDetailsLandlords in New York City swiftly absorbed broker fee costs into rent—causing a 15 percent uptick in advertised prices and diminutions ...
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Read moreDetailsThese mandates often make small apartment buildings financially unfeasible, leading developers to build larger, more expensive complexes instead—or nothing at ...
Read moreDetailsA must-read for anyone trying to understand why California, despite its wealth and innovation, remains so deeply challenged when it ...
Read moreDetailsNew Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 units in the past decade, with another 6,500 planned—a potential 37 percent increase ...
Read moreDetailsThere’s no substitute for the hard work of delivering core services efficiently and keeping costs down. Anyone telling you otherwise ...
Read moreDetailsTrying to legislate investors out of the market not only won’t solve the problem at hand, it may bring its ...
Read moreDetailsThis is not a mandate against parking, but an invitation to build what’s needed without arbitrary constraints... The proposal reflects ...
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