“The changes to city zoning were made after a regional housing study found a need for more one- and two-bedroom housing units in the city.” #waynesboro #zoning #housing #CottageCourt #shortage https://augustafreepress.com/news/waynesboro-no-applications-received-to-date-for-cottage-court-housing/ Waynesboro: No applications received for cottage court housing

The applicant for the 24 homes on Barracks requested a deferral. We instead had a long presentation and Q and A about the last year and a half of #cville planning work and the next year plus. We had a lot to talk about! Most striking and alarming to me was that we got our first update on new #housing numbers from our new #zoning. Very low! Lower than I expected given the efforts we have taken to permit more homes near jobs and services.

In 2018, #MadisonWI adopted a #zoning code amendment to make self-use storage unit projects more space-efficient: Any new project would need to have more than one story. However, the language in the ordinance doesn't provide any further specification, e.g. what % of the building needs to be two stories. The result: This project, with it's decorative "towers," fulfills the criteria. #urbanism #LandUse

"We don’t need zoning"
Hard agree!
#Zoning #Housing
https://substack.com/home/post/p-163491612

"We don’t need zoning"
Hard agree!
#Zoning #Housing
https://substack.com/home/post/p-163491612

https://communityengagement.substack.com/p/week-ahead-for-june-9-2025-albemarle Thanks to Sean Tubbs for covering the #cville Planning Commission #housing #zoning

“We have sort of understood our way around the environmental thing, but not the human thing” #cville #housing #zoning #flooding https://www.29news.com/2025/06/05/split-albemarle-supervisors-deny-request-fill-floodplain/

If you are following the situation in Tom’s River, NJ (the town is trying to use #EminentDomain to seize church property to turn into a park after the church submitted plans to the #zoning commission to build a #homeless shelter), here are some ways to help: #Epsicopal #TomsRiver

Kitchen-supply warehouse store in Jamaica Plain wins OK to expand with apartments, restaurant and bakery
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/kitchen-supply-warehouse-store-jamaica-plain-wins-ok-expand-apartments
#Boston #zoning #housing

“This bill allows the option of building homes at different types and price points to meet the demand and needs of buyers...Lowering the size and type of residential housing will increase the amount of housing that can be built and lowers housing costs.” https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/27/texas-house-tiny-homes/ #Texas #TXLeg #zoning #housing

We are running into some interesting challenges with the new #zoning code in #cville , which is broadly that, by replacing a series of complicated one-off rulesets for each application (“Planned Unit Development”) with a new citywide standard, we are finding some inefficiencies in applying the same yardstick everywhere, especially around the new fence height regulations (“what is a fence?”), building height regulations, and width regulations.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/05/27/seattle-just-rezoned-the-entire-city/ “The change, which also allows sixplexes near light rail and RapidRide bus stations, is one of the biggest changes to zoning in Seattle in decades.” #Seattle #zoning #housing

Reposted from @cityofthousandoaks: Reminder!

Join us for Community Workshop #2 on Wednesday, May 28 at 6 PM at the Newbury Park Library! Explore the Zoning Code Update, uncover key findings, and share ideas to shape your community.

Learn more at toaks.gov/zoningcode

California's legislators keep telling us they're solving our housing problems by increasing new construction, but their own report shows how wrong they are. https://horizonskyline.net/2025/05/23/sacramentos-legislators-are-so-wrong-on-housing/ #housing #environment #zoning #Newsom

“Right now, we’ve got a lot of developers asking about the ordinance and asking about changes,” Norris said. “The number one concern that they raise according to the city is how can I get out of building affordable housing, and we want to flip that.” https://www.29news.com/2025/01/28/year-retrospect-charlottesville-zoning-ordinance/ #cville #zoning #housing

https://infocville.com/2025/05/21/charlottesville-board-of-zoning-appeals-to-review-24-unit-proposal-on-barracks-road/ Thanks to Sean Tubbs for covering #cville Board of #Zoning Appeals. This bit at the end is especially important: “There is no other information outlet in this community that is tracking the implementation of Charlottesville’s new Development Code”

Denser zoning approved for #Roslindale Square
https://www.universalhub.com/2025/denser-zoning-approved-roslindale-square
#Boston #zoning #housing

"I think it’s fascinating that folks are demanding direct democracy on a 400-page zoning reform and somehow we passed the budget without a single public comment.”

https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_98192feb-fc85-4f87-b529-c4058152a631.html