Developer Permits Zoning 
Archinect
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The Boston Zoning Commission has approved an amendment to the city’s zoning code to incorporate Net Zero Carbon (NZC) Zoning, becoming the first city in the U.S. Developers must demonstrate compliance during the city’s Article 80 Development Review.
ArchDaily
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Los Angeles is no exception; with 74% of its land zoned exclusively for single-family homes, multifamily housing construction is limited to an extremely small swath of the city, making the construction of new affordable housing difficult. Complex multi-year permit approval processes often make these projects even less feasible.
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Archinect
MARCH 15, 2024
billion development is fully funded. The outcome lies in whether he can receive approval from the Federal Aviation Administration, zoning approval from the city and whether the phase one apartment towers are sufficiently leased. Matteson Capital also said they won’t be able to obtain a building permit until at least September.
Dwell
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
After three years of litigious back-and-forth, in July, the family appeared to have prevailed , and were able to apply for building permits. In the two years since the first statewide law passed, nearly half of all ADU permits were in the L.A. Only 15 percent of Californians can afford a median-priced home," says Goyer.
Dwell
OCTOBER 29, 2024
But in Chicago, a design competition called Come Home Chicago , launched at the end of 2022 by the city’s Department of Planning and Development (DPD) in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Center (CAC), was trying to change that. The city, the site said , was, "committing to the delivery of 30-100 affordable units."
Architizer
JANUARY 22, 2025
Zoning laws, in particular, seem to have been written with the assumption that families never change. In cities where accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are permitted, families can easily construct secondary spaces for co-parenting, multigenerational living, or, lets be honest, avoiding each other on particularly bad days.
Brandon Donnelly
FEBRUARY 15, 2022
Somebody on Twitter responded to my recent post about inclusionary zoning and asked: Aren’t all the upzonings that the City is already doing a kind of density bonus? ” Why does there need to be any other sort of subsidy in order to mitigate the economic impacts of inclusionary zoning? Here’s a specific example.
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