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Design Review Boards: How to Speed Them Up Without Lowering Standards
Learn how to make design review boards faster and more predictable without lowering standards, reducing delays, risk, and costly uncertainty.
Planning for Warehouse, Industrial, and Logistics Growth Near Neighborhoods
Planning for warehouse, industrial, and logistics growth near neighborhoods without harming health, safety, housing, or quality of life.
What Makes a Good Housing Needs Assessment?
Learn what makes a good housing needs assessment and how it reveals housing gaps, unmet demand, and the policies most likely to solve them.
Scenario Planning for Citywide Growth Decisions
Explore how scenario planning for citywide growth decisions helps local governments compare futures, reduce risk, and invest with more confidence.
Redevelopment Agencies, Tax Increment, and Value Capture Today
Learn how tax increment financing and value capture turn rising land values into funding for redevelopment, infrastructure, and public goals.
Housing Production Targets: How Cities Set Them and Track Progress
Learn how cities set housing production targets, track progress, and turn goals into permits, funding, and homes to improve affordability.
Urban Growth Boundaries: What They Achieve and What They Do Not
Urban growth boundaries shape where cities expand, protect rural land, and affect housing costs—learn what they solve and where they fall short.
Planning for Child Care, Schools, and Social Infrastructure in New Neighborhoods
Learn how planning for child care, schools, and social infrastructure helps new neighborhoods grow livable, connected, and family-ready.
Why Regional Planning Still Matters in a Local Zoning World
See why regional planning still matters: it aligns housing, jobs, transport, and climate action across borders to solve what local zoning can’t.
The Promise and Pitfalls of Objective Design Standards
Explore how objective design standards can streamline urban planning, reduce disputes, and reveal the tradeoffs behind clearer design rules.
Land Use Conflict Mediation: Tools for Planners and Communities
Land use conflict mediation helps planners and communities resolve disputes early, avoid delays and mistrust, and reach better land use decisions.
Splitting Lots, Legalizing Duplexes, and Other Small-Scale Zoning Reforms
See how small-scale zoning reforms like lot splits and duplex legalization help cities add homes faster, cheaper, and with less disruption.
How Development Agreements Shape Large Urban Projects
Learn how development agreements shape large urban projects by defining risks, responsibilities, and public benefits to move plans into reality.
When Moratoria Make Sense and When They Backfire
Learn when a moratorium protects communities, when it causes harm, and how to judge temporary policy pauses in planning, housing, and land use.
Public Land Disposition Policies for Housing and Community Benefits
Learn how public land disposition policies can turn surplus public land into affordable housing and stronger community benefits.