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Can Single-Family Zoning Be Meaningfully Reversed?

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Can Single-Family Zoning Be Meaningfully Reversed? Wed, 10/06/2021 - 10:19. Single-family only zoning has long been the smart bomb NIMBYs and municipalities used to keep out developments that would add density, multifamily, and “those people” of a different race, ethnicity, or class from moving into their neighborhoods.

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Sacramento Torn as Lawmakers Attempt to Rezone Single-Family Lots

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Thu, 08/26/2021 - 10:28. Only permitting new multifamily developments on single-family lots is the most recent move by Sacramento lawmakers meant to address the housing shortage, but it’s expected to make little impact. of Realtors as a way, it said, to limit developers and gentrification in lower-income communities of color.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

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Additionally, by October 1, 2021, the owner of a building that has at least 150,000 square feet of office space must provide recycling receptacles for the collection of recyclable materials and for the removal of specified materials deposited into the recycling receptacles so that the materials can be further recycled.

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New California Duplex Law Permits Development in Residential Neighborhoods

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New California Duplex Law Permits Development in Residential Neighborhoods. Thu, 12/02/2021 - 10:26. And as much as three-quarters of the developable land in the state is now zoned only for single-family housing, according to UC Berkeley research. It’s hard to overstate how big of a change the new law could have in California.

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Aging in Place: My Aunt Nancy’s New ADU

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The family had implicit trust in the contractor due to their previous relationship, a situation that turned out to have a downside as Toni came to regret a loose approach to planning the addition, especially regarding the permitting process. They only found out about this stipulation after they applied for the construction permit. .

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New A.D.U. Ordinance Introduced to N.J. Neighborhood

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Fri, 12/10/2021 - 10:06. ordinance allows separate accessory dwelling units in all single-family zones, and in an effort to create more affordable housing, the town is also permitting homeowners to sell units separately from a primary residence as condominiums, The New York Times reports. . Neighborhood. In Princeton, N.J.,

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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Wed, 12/15/2021 - 17:31. Ivory Homes in Salt Lake City is Pro Builder's 2021 Builder of the Year. 1 home builder in building permits and construction value, scaring off every large-volume, multistate production operation that dared enter Ivory’s Wasatch Mountain lair. Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda.