Citywide Zoning Reforms Approved for Sacramento
The Sacramento City Council took steps toward an updated General Plan that includes a variety of innovative planning proposals, including the elimination of single-family zoning by allowing up to four dwelling units on all residential parcels. January 20, 2021, 12pm PST | James Brasuell | The Sacramento City Council took a step Tuesday toward becoming one of the first cities in the country to eliminate traditional single-family zoning, reports Theresa Clift.
The City Council voted unanimously to allow all residential parcels to contain up to four dwelling units to help the city alleviate its housing affordability crisis, explains Clift, and increase access for more of the city s residents to neighborhoods with high-performing schools, pristine parks and other amenities. The changes are included in the city s 2040 General Plan.
Oregon missing middle housing law disrupts new subdivisons January 16 2021
The Wilsonville Planning Commission considers how dramatically to alter the code to allow for higher-density housing
The Wilsonville Planning Commission recently was asked one of the most vexing and consequential questions the city faces regarding the implementation of recent housing legislation designed to foster more middle housing: What should be done about Frog Pond West?
The residential neighborhood along Boeckman Road and next to Advance Road was designed to almost exclusively include single-family homes, and that decision was based on animated community preference for less-dense housing. So far, between 75 and 100 homes have been built in the neighborhood with around 500 still to go, according to city Planning Manager Daniel Pauly.
Statewide Zoning Changes Adopted in Oregon to Limit Parking, Add Missing Middle
The state of Oregon made planning history in 2019 by adopting House Bill 2001, paving the way for the state to preempt local exclusionary zoning laws. Now, over a year later, the state land use board has decided how to implement that goal. December 15, 2020, 8am PST | James Brasuell | In the first action of this kind by any US state, Oregon’s state land use board voted unanimously last week to sharply downsize dozens of local parking mandates on duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, and cottages, reports Michael Andersen.
The approved changes will immediately impact 58 jurisdictions around the state, giving teeth to the planning vision implemented statewide in 2019 by House Bill 2001. According to Andersen, the action by the state land use board effectively legalizes Missing Middle Housing types throughout the state. The statewide preemption of the action makes the approval arguably th
Top Websites for Urban Planning – 2020
Planetizen s annual list of the best of the planning Internet in a year inextricably defined by the uncertainty and constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. December 14, 2020, 8am PST | James Brasuell |
The events of the year have shown with intense clarity the deep and broad intersectionality of planning. It is nearly impossible to extract consideration of the public health, economic, and social risks of the pandemic from a discussion of planning, both in practice and in theory.
This intersectionality of planning extends to the digital realm. The pandemic has brought new attention to the power of the Internet as a tool for building and protecting the world, and planning expertise has been essential in every new phase of this ordeal. Digital tools like those below, and others like them, will continue to empower effective action as the world begins to pick up the pieces of 2020 and, hopefully, undertake a regenerative recovery in 2021 and
Sweeping Zoning Reforms Adopted in Olympia
The Olympia, Washington City Council adopted a new Housing Options Code Amendments ordinance, effectively eliminating single-family zoning in the city. December 13, 2020, 9am PST | James Brasuell |
The Olympia City Council made planning history as the latest local jurisdiction to adopt a package of zoning reforms to allow denser housing types in the city’s single-family zoned neighborhoods, reports Brandon Block.
The Housing Options Code Amendments ordinance approved unanimously by the City Council this week effectively eliminating single-family zoning throughout much of the city.
The ordinance applies to zoning districts R 4-8 (Residential 4-8 units per acre) and R 6-12 (Residential 6-12 units per acre), which collectively account for 68 percent of the city and its urban growth area.