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A key FMCSA denial and evolving NHTSA crash reporting show the freight future will be governed, not just engineered. The early winners will be geofenced logistics nodes with clear rules and infrastructure.

The $5B NEVI program is reorganizing where people stop, how long they stay, and what gets built next to highways. Cities that modernize zoning now can capture corridor value instead of watching it pass by.

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

Local control is the mythology of American zoning. But in 2025, the real story is state power—especially in California, where the state has increasingly treated housing scarcity as a statewide economic emergency rather than a neighborhood preference. The result is a new zoning reality: your city’s plan may be less powerful than the state’s housing statutes. Start with SB 9, California’s lot-split and duplex law. It was designed to legalize small-scale infill in single-family

New York City didn’t “announce a boom.” It rewrote the rulebook that determines what is even possible  to build, where, and how fast. That’s why zoning text amendments matter more than ribbon cuttings: they quietly change the math for thousands of parcels at once. And in NYC, that quiet rewrite has a name — City of Yes . City of Yes isn’t one project, one neighborhood, or one developer. It’s a citywide zoning reset  that adjusts baseline feasibility: unit counts, allowed uses

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

New South Wales is turning climate ambition into a hard infrastructure program. The state has legislated a 70% emissions reduction target by 2035 (from 2005 levels) on the way to net zero by 2050, anchoring its strategy in a network of Renewable Energy Zones (REZs) that bundle generation, storage, and transmission at regional scale.   Under the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap , five REZs are being rolled out as “clean energy industrial parks” that concentrate high-qual