New York Town Without Zoning Elects Pro-Zoning Candidates
Pro-zoning candidates in Caroline, New York, won the elections for town supervisor and three seats on the town board.
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Pro-zoning candidates in Caroline, New York, won the elections for town supervisor and three seats on the town board.
Many of our land-use policies have their roots in housing discrimination, and they continue to stand in the way of affordable and equitable housing. These policies need to change. Restricting single-family zoning is a place to start.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
The people who could benefit from new housing stock aren't on this map—they're exiled to unincorporated areas.
There’s a malaise haunting land use planning—few now question that the system of zoning we inherited has produced cities that are unaffordable, inequitable, segregated, and sprawling. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way: zoning reform is in the air. But why stop at mere reform? As M. Nolan Gray argues in Arbitrary Lines, it’s time for a fundamental rethink of our system of land-use planning.