Tag: Permitting and Licensing

The core of Baltimore’s reforms is regulatory simplification. By removing a mandated minimum of off‑street parking, the city lowers one ...

Removing parking minimums can increase the flexibility to use small undeveloped or underdeveloped parcels for “missing middle” forms of housing, ...

The Better Cities Project, in partnership with True Charity, is proud to announce the release of Local Policies to Expand ...

New Rochelle has completed more than 4,500 units in the past decade, with another 6,500 planned—a potential 37 percent increase ...

Trying to legislate investors out of the market not only won’t solve the problem at hand, it may bring its ...

Design affects how residents use space, interact with neighbors, and connect to their surroundings. When cities default to the same ...

WiIn a region already facing a staggering shortfall of more than half a million homes, the authors lay bare how ...

All too often, cities diverge from enacting local regulations essential to public safety into unnecessary, subjective standards that instead serve ...

Auburn, Maine decided scarce housing was holding the city back; what they did has lessons for communities of every size.

New Rochelle, New York, is a dramatic example of how zoning reform can attract investment and generate economic growth for ...