Where is Austin supposed to put 135,000 new homes in ten years? The city posed the question. Diametrically opposed groups of residents could not come close to agreeing on the answer.
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This week we are examining what went wrong with Austin’s CodeNEXT process and what should be done now.
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A look at how regulations shape land use in Marietta, Georgia illustrates a vicious cycle: when your zoning code is premised on car-dependency, car-dependency becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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A Strong Towns member shared with us a success story from the city of College Station, Texas, which recently revised its zoning code to make it easier to do incremental development by rehabilitating or expanding older structures.
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Now, the story of a wealthy family who sold their farm and the developer who exploited an agricultural tax subsidy to keep it all together.
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When large storefronts sit empty for years, holding out for the perfect big tenant, while small businesses can’t find space to rent, we’ve got a serious problem.
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Why is your city dotted with vacant lots? Probably because it’s functionally illegal to build on them.
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Most of the land in our cities sits vacant for large parts of the day. Is this the best use of our resources?
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A small change to zoning codes could help overcome some of the forces stifling growth in American cities and avoid displacement of long-term residents at the same time.
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Land use planning should be a means to an end — not an end in itself.
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By making it more expensive to build market-rate housing, inclusionary zoning has the potential to actually reduce access to housing.
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These 5 steps will help you test the development potential in your town.
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In the face of new growth, one city makes a simple change that unlocks huge potential.
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if you care about creating financially healthy, walk-friendly places, it's time to take a look at your local subdivision regulations.
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Here are 10 tips that will equip you to turn the high-potential neighborhoods in your town into walkable, economically successful places.
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If we took the entire Strong Towns Strength Test and boiled it down to one indicator, it would be parking minimums. If you can't figure out how to get rid of them, your town isn't strong.
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It is very seductive to look at Houston's flooding as a simple engineering and planning problem.
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For extreme events, we can't measure risk, but we can measure fragility. Cities that want to protect themselves from extreme events need to become less fragile. They need to adopt a Strong Towns approach.
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Chuck Marohn and urban affairs journalist Scott Beyer discuss their overlapping and diverging viewpoints on government regulations, zoning and housing affordability issues.
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These 5 harmful myths about Houston's land use planning need to be put to rest.
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