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Nonprofit group releases National Zoning Atlas resource for 2025

Archinect

The newly released National Zoning Atlas resource covers 30,000 U.S. municipal zoning codes and consolidates several different disciplines, representing the "most complex geocoded legal research project in the United States." Here’s a useful tool for architects and planners as we enter the new year.

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KOS Mosque / r.a.f.studio

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Completed in 2020 in Konya, Turkey. KOS Mosque is a renovation project of one of the typical mosque projects in the Konya Organized Industrial Zone, which is not only considered a. Images by Gürkan Akay.

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The ADU Boom Has Begun. Is It Adding the Housing We Need?

Dwell

As housing policy organizations like Casita Coalition chipped away at zoning and other regulatory barriers, California has passed a raft of laws around ADUs since 2017, including one in October 2023 that allows people in participating jurisdictions to buy and sell ADUs as condos. The average unit size is around 600 square feet.

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Amazon's latest warehouse battle has San Francisco lawmakers pushing for a moratorium on similar developments

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The second most valuable company in the world, Amazon has been gobbling up space throughout the southeast corner of the city, taking advantage of zoning meant to preserve blue-collar jobs in a market in which housing and office space have typically generated higher revenues.

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Delve Architects uses green tiles to disguise Kim-oflage studio in London garden

Deezen

Called Kim-oflage a combination of the clients' names, Kit and Imogen, and camouflage the 25-square-metre studio adds a multipurpose space to Victorian terrace in Nunhead, which had previously been extended by Delve Architects in 2020.

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Will Councilman Dorsey's Elimination of Single Family Zoning Help Baltimore?

Community Architect Daily

Does single family zoning prevent development? Today we will look at Baltimore Councilman Ryan Dorsey's zoning bill titled " Abundant Housing Act " which effectively will eliminate single family zoning in Baltimore. Will the suggested zoning bill endanger neighborhoods like this one?

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The most myopic way to do "comprehensive" re-zoning

Community Architect Daily

For example in zoning. Baltimore County Masterplan: Ransacked by the Council This was once again on display this week when the county council voted about nearly 400 zoning issues in a process that is as obtuse as its name: Quadrennial CZMP. Each county resident can apply for zoning changes on any parcel of land that is zoned.

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