Across the diverse landscape of land use matters, few regulatory issues and approval processes elicit as much emotion and opposition as planning and zoning decisions relating to housing for persons [...]
Housing regulations are ancient and often motivated by obvious risks. Boston banned thatched roofs in 1630, the year of the city's founding, in the wake of an urban fire. New [...]
It has frequently been emphasized by courts and commentators that the power to award variances should be exercised sparingly and that a variance should be awarded only if it will [...]
This article also contributes to our understanding of growth management policy. Much of the research on growth management has focused primarily on the state level and has assumed that municipalities [...]
Home ownership near the workplace has become unattainable for many working Americans. Despite the overall increase in national home-ownership rates, according to the Urban Land Institute, "[a] rapid population rise [...]
One important neglected issue is why community associations exist at all, given that they are subject to a large financial disincentive in the form of double taxation. Much as business [...]
While the Administrative Code lays out broad goals for historic preservation in the city, there has been little systematic work examining the city’s success in meeting them. To be sure, [...]
The responses from a nationwide survey of residential land use regulation in over 2,600 communities across the U.S. are used to develop a series of indexes that capture the stringency [...]