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Parking is the quietest line item that can kill a housing deal. Minimum parking requirements don’t just mandate asphalt—they mandate cost, delay, and building form. They change what can fit on a lot, what a lender will finance, and what a builder can deliver at a price the market can absorb. That’s why parking reform has become one of the fastest-moving zoning changes in the U.S. A useful benchmark: researchers tracking zoning codes nationally have found that roughly 20% of e

If NYC is rewriting rules citywide, Chicago is running a different experiment: fix downtown by changing what downtown is for. The Loop’s office-heavy identity is being rebalanced, and LaSalle Street is ground zero. Chicago’s LaSalle Street initiative has been framed publicly as a vision and an implementation pipeline—explicitly acknowledging that downtown needs more residents, more mixed-use, and a better public realm. Why conversions are the new downtown development Office

The loudest housing debates aren’t always about a single tower, a single block, or a single rezoning. More and more, the fight is over the operating system  of the city: citywide zoning packages that tweak the rules everywhere, unlocking “small” amounts of additional housing across thousands of lots. That’s the “ City of Yes” template —and it stays a core conversation because it touches every neighborhood, shifts what’s legal by default , and rewrites baseline feasibility for