Helping cities overcome barriers to entrepreneurship
All too often, cities diverge from enacting local regulations essential to public safety into unnecessary, subjective standards that instead serve ...
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Tag: Permitting and Licensing
Case study: Incremental victories with zoning reform in Auburn, Maine
Auburn, Maine decided scarce housing was holding the city back; what they did has lessons for communities of every size.
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Case study: Innovations to zoning and permitting regulations can unlock opportunity
New Rochelle, New York, is a dramatic example of how zoning reform can attract investment and generate economic growth for ...
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Street vendors belong on the post-COVID-19 urban scene
Despite come cities' concerns, encouraging this kind of entrepreneurship is a small but significantly equitable way to stimulate the economy.
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As gig-economy platforms proliferate, cities struggle to keep up
A sector impacting more than a third of the workforce is hobbled by lagging municipal regulations. What can change?
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