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A Los Angeles zoning ordinance reduces the allowable building envelope for single-family teardowns and remodels in the city’s older neighborhoods.
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Reprieve would give builders a year or two to ride out downturn and resume work quickly when market rebounds.
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The Florida HBA said yesterday it will appeal a recent federal ruling that upheld the city of Tallahassee's inclusionary zoning program. The builders maintained that the law, passed in 2005, constituted a physical taking of property without just compensation, violated due process, and imposed an...
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Commissioners in Miami-Dade County, Fla., have temporarily halted building permits for trailer park conversions in an effort to preserve the area's dwindling supply of affordable housing. The stopgap measure, which went into effect on Oct. 16, buys time for the county to compile recommendations on...
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The developers of GreenCity Lofts had the unenviable task of dealing with two different zoning jurisdictions to get the project built, but the hard work was well worth it. The 62-unit project now stands as one of the greenest multifamily projects in the San Francisco Bay area.
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Most builders state with unshakeable certainty that in order to protect their margins when building affordable or workforce houses, municipalities must allow them to maximize their land by approving higher densities. Perry Bigelow of Bigelow Homes in Aurora, Ill.--which has been building a...
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The Florida HBA won an important round in its fight challenging the constitutionality of the inclusionary zoning ordinance the city of Tallahassee passed in spring 2005 when a circuit court judge denied the city's motion to dismiss the trade group's complaint against the city.
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A COALITION OF BUILDERS AND REALTORS in Florida filed a lawsuit earlier this year in the state's Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County to challenge an inclusionary zoning law that the city of Tallahassee passed in spring 2005 to provide more workforce housing.
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When is a zoning change discriminatory? The city of Kyle, Tex., 20 miles south of Austin, is about to find out.
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Massachusetts' housing production level ranks among the lowest in the nation, and what's built is among the most expensive. Too few homes is “the biggest single culprit” in the state's lack of affordable housing, according to Clark Ziegler, executive director of the Massachusetts Housing...
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Builders are being forced to jump through hoops to comply with zoning that some say is out of step with current land-use trends, home and lot designs, and buyer demands.
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Antigrowth land-use policies, often developed under the guise of smart growth, cause housing shortages that bring real hardship to families, especially low- and moderate-income families who lack the resources to find adequate housing in a market in which demand exceeds supply.
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Part of the challenge for the design team was that each home had to be designed as the new zoning laws were being written.
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A soft touch not only serves Vergnolle's reputation well but also helps him breeze through the permitting and zoning process.
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With low-interest rates holding, and rosy forecasts from almost every economist with a conduit to the media, the American dream of homeownership for all seems to be chugging ahead at full steam. But behind the boom times lies a deep malaise. Many Americans, young, old, poor and middle class, cannot...
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Imagine you're a builder who wants to put up 4,300 homes on 638 acres in St. Charles, Mo. It's a billion-dollar, mixed-use project. Half the site will have to be raised out of a 500-year flood plain, and stormwater runoff will require that 75 acres of lakes be created. Over the course of two public...
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The relentless push by big builders, combined with a regulatory minefield, has forced small builders to skirmish over every scrap of available land.
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Whether tapping into credits, tax reductions, or special employee incentives, reducing the financial burden on buyers calls for innovation and flexibility.
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The rallying cry for many a defender of the move-up approach to building and selling homes in the United States has been that about two-thirds of Americans own their homes. The Center for Housing Policy in Washington published a report this year titled "America's Working Families and the Housing...
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Denver has a new mayor, auditor, and city council, but even though builders lobbied hard during last month's citywide elections to convince the politicians that the city's new inclusionary zoning ordinance was flawed, all signs point to the city moving forward as planned. The new ordinance, which...