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Parking Minimums Are the Hidden Tax: The Zoning Reform Spreading City to City
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
Jan 132 min read


Citywide Zoning Text Amendments: “Gentle Density” at Scale (and Why It’s the New Power Tool)
The biggest housing reshuffles in America aren’t always announced with a flashy “rezoning map.” Increasingly, they arrive as something more technical—and more consequential: citywide zoning text amendments. These are rulebook rewrites that change what’s legal everywhere at once , turning “maybe, with a variance” into “yes, by-right” for small-to-mid intensity housing types. That’s what “gentle density at scale” really means. Not a handful of tower sites. Not a few corridor up
Jan 123 min read
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