Zoning Reform Is Finally Shipping
After years of talk, the legal text is changing.
For a decade, zoning reform was a conference panel topic and little else. In the past two years it has become statute in a growing list of states and cities, and the development math is shifting with it.
Watch the By-Right Pathway
The reforms that matter are the ones that make density by-right — removing the discretionary approval where projects go to die. Upzoning that still requires a hearing changes very little.
Developers who learn to read the new codes early are finding parcels that were uninvestable eighteen months ago and are penciling today.
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