Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 3—Frederick's aldermen on Wednesday will get their first public look at the city's plans for a new planning approach in the ...

The Ramona form based code — the guideline for building in the community — is being updated to clarify rules and regulations and to make the process easier for business owners. Since its ...

Arlington city leaders are considering a large area for its first attempt at form-based code, an alternative to traditional use-based zoning. Council members expressed mixed feelings, with some saying ...

Rebecca Boxall envisions part of the city including the intersection of Collins Street and Abram Street in Arlington looking very differently with form-based code. Instead of a chaotic assortment of ...

The city is looking to expand its experiment with form-based planning code, new laws that will greatly change Cleveland's look in years to come. Credit: Mark Oprea Cleveland’s push to update its ...

Zoning has also been criticized for contributing to the nation’s housing crisis by freezing neighborhoods and limiting new construction, in regions such as California’s Bay Area. Traditional zoning ...

If you’ve been following Santa Fe’s planning discussions, you may have heard that the city is preparing revisions to its Land Development Code. For most people, those words can sound like a dry legal ...

On Tuesday, the Arcata Planning Commission discussed a draft of a code setting several rules for development within Arcata’s 138-acre rezoning project aimed at spiking local housing supply. The draft ...

KINGSTON — The city’s Common Council unanimously approved a new citywide zoning code on Tuesday night, concluding a yearslong effort to comprehensively change how homeowners, developers and ...

Community groups and residents are reviewing a plan to change the process of zoning for part of the east side of Frederick, after the release of a draft proposal. The city plans to hold five meetings ...

It seems like every few days, residents write letters condemning the proposed development of the Brickworks property in East Frederick. “It doesn’t belong, or match” our city, we say. The parking lots ...

Washington, D.C.-based WDG Architecture has completed the design of Columbia Center, a new mixed-use project located in Arlington, Va. The 480,000-sf development is the first to follow the Columbia ...