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Why Charlotte Could Be the Hottest Housing Market of 2023

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Why Charlotte Could Be the Hottest Housing Market of 2023. With strong home value appreciation and a healthy inventory of for-sale housing, Charlotte, N.C., Housing Markets. Housing Markets. Thu, 01/12/2023 - 11:25. is on a fast track for growth in the year ahead. New-Home Sales.

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Minnesota Couple is Building a Straw Bale House

Natural Building

“Passive houses” meet a voluntary energy efficiency standard that drastically reduces the building’s carbon footprint and requires little energy to be heated and cooled. Working with their architects and city planners, they eventually applied for a cluster development permit.

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Sacramento on Brink of Reversing Residential Zoning

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Sacramento is close to approving one of the country’s first plans to end single-family residential zoning, which permits only one home on a property. The group, House Sacramento, is part of a network of organizations across the state called Yes in My Backyard, or YIMBY, that push for similar measures. Housing Markets.

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Can Single-Family Zoning Be Meaningfully Reversed?

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Although there have been efforts to get rid of single-family districts, they lack the teeth to address the plethora of obstacles to residential development on a scale that would affect housing prices. Local officials responded by making it more difficult for home builders to obtain construction permits.

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The U.S. Infrastructure Bill: What It Means to You

Fieldwire

The White House likens the broadband improvements to previous efforts that provided electricity to most Americans in the early 1900s. It also creates a new Grid Deployment Authority to improve permitting and financing of power transmission line projects. Andrew Roe is a civil engineer and technical writer based in Minneapolis, MN.

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Project Manager Workloads: How Much Is Enough?

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How many houses can one field superintendent carry? I had to bring up official historical weather data to convince a builder from Alberta, Canada, that Minneapolis is actually colder in degree-days during December, January, and February than his location. Project Manager Workloads: How Much Is Enough? Sun, 12/12/2021 - 12:54.

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Construction permits exceeded $2 billion in Minneapolis in 2014

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Minneapolis achieved a construction milestone in 2014, when for the first time it issued $2 billion in new building permits in a single year. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Engineers Facility Managers Hotel Facilities Multifamily Housing Construction Office Building'