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Parking Reforms Under Consideration in St. Paul Two options for significant parking reforms are under consideration in St. Paul. The City Council could decide to eliminate parking requirements entirely as soon as this summer. May 13, 2021, 7am PDT | James Brasuell | Frederick Melo reports on the ongoing efforts to relax parking requirements in the Twin Cities—where both cities have already relaxed parking requirements along transit corridors. Efforts to reduce parking requirements in Minneapolis in keeping with the vision of the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan were documented by Pl...

Analyzed and complied with NYC Building & Zoning Codes and ADA Compliance on residential & commercial projects Produced architectural documents for permit submittal as well as construction Filed Alteration 1,2,&3, Place of Assembly applications for NYC Department of Buildings, Landmarks Preservation Commission, Fire Department City of New York, and NYC Department of Transportation Provided BPD site survey, drawing documents, and applications for Department of Environmental Protection commercial projects in NYC mechanical, sprinklers, egress) for initial and sign-off Mar 2014 - Sep 201...

Ohio Economists: Relax Zoning to Lower Housing Costs A panel of Ohio economists make the case for more multi-family housing and businesses in single-family neighborhoods. April 22, 2021, 6am PDT | James Brasuell | "Less-strict residential zoning standards […] would make homes cheaper in the future," according to an article by Marty Schladen. Schladen is sharing the results of a survey of the Ohio Experts Panel by Scioto Analysis. Of the 26 economists surveyed, 22 agreed that removing exclusionary and Euclidean zoning regulations would reduce housing costs. "Some even argued that it wou...

Does Zoning Create a Vicious Circle—Or Can It Fix Itself? Ideally, planners could balance homeowners' interests in zoning against the public good, liberalizing zoning when prices got too high. But this may be politically impossible. Share As I and many others have argued (both in Planetizen and elsewhere) existing zoning increases housing costs and accelerates suburban sprawl by restricting the housing supply available in close-in, walkable neighborhoods. It could be argued, however, that planners can both use zoning to slow neighborhood change and keep housing affordable. This would be t...

History (Un)made: Berkeley City Council Votes to Eliminate Single-Family Zoning The city that invented single-family zoning in 1916, for discriminatory purposes, will completely remove that exclusionary legacy from its zoning code. February 24, 2021, 10am PST | James Brasuell | The Berkeley City Council, the very first city in the United States to implement single-family zoning, now commonly referred to as exclusionary zoning, has voted to completely upend that legacy. By a unanimous vote of 9-0, the Berkeley City Council last night to end single-family zoning citywide, the latest in a s...