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  • New ADU Tools May Unlock Affordable Housing in Your Backyard

    From California to Arkansas, ready-made design plans can reduce time and costs during the permitting process.
    by: Jon DePaolis       September 26, 2024
    From California to Arkansas, ready-made design plans can reduce time and costs during the permitting process.
  • What's Blocking an ADU Boom?

    Accessory dwelling units are gaining national momentum, but these regulatory and financial hurdles still need to be cleared.
    by: Adina Solomon       September 09, 2021
    Accessory dwelling units are gaining national momentum, but these regulatory and financial hurdles still need to be cleared.
  • Practice Gentle Density

    Zoning Practice — February 2023
    by: Jacqueline Berg, AICP, John Houseal, FAICP       February 01, 2023
    This issue of Zoning Practice explores zoning strategies that balance the concerns of residents and the demands of the housing market by accommodating gentle density increases in a context-sensitive manner. From historic downtown neighborhoods to modern residential subdivisions, the tools presented can be used by planners throughout the country to implement housing policy through regulation.
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  • 3 Zoning Changes That Make Residential Neighborhoods More Affordable

    Zoning reform is one of our greatest weapons against rising housing costs. Here's how we can wield it.
    by: Robert Liberty       February 01, 2021
    After 100-plus years of prioritizing single-family zoning, cities and states are welcoming diverse housing types back to the neighborhood.
  • Beyond Use Zoning: The Role of Deregulation in Housing Equity

    Zoning Practice — May 2022
    by: John Zeanah, AICP       May 01, 2022
    This issue of Zoning Practice explores how accessory use standards, dimensional standards, and building codes affect opportunities to build missing middle housing. And it highlights how Memphis and other cities are looking beyond use zoning to advance goals of housing equity in reforming codes and policies.
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  • A Room of One’s Own: Accessory Dwelling Unit Reforms and Local Parochialism

    Urban Lawyer, 45(3): 519–569, 2013
    by: Margaret Brinig, Nicole Garnet
    This article discusses the national trend in state and local regulations toward more permissive regulations for accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and presents the findings of a study of local regulations in California.
  • Accessory Dwelling Units: A Smart Growth Tool for Providing Affordable Housing

    Housing News Network, August 2016
    by: Jaimie Ross
    This article provides a general overview of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), discusses potential regulatory barriers to ADUs and state efforts to promote ADUs in Florida, and includes considerations for local zoning ordinances.
  • Accessory Housing Is Part of the Solution

    Breakthroughs, January 2004
    This short article summarizes a number of common regulatory barriers to affordable housing. These barriers include process requirements, design standards, occupancy standards, and lot size and parking standards.
  • The Great "Yes in My Back Yard" (YIMBY) Movement: Driven by the Gig Economy

    Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development Law, 29(1): 57-74, 2020
    by: Dwight Merriam, FAICP
    This article explores increased interest in accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as one manifestation of the gig economy.
  • Accessory Apartments for Today’s Communities

    Planning Commissioners Journal, November/December 1991
    by: Patrick Hare
    This short article highlights the potential of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as an affordable housing strategy and briefly discusses common barriers to developing ADUs.
  • Understanding and Appraising Properties with Accessory Dwelling Units

    The Appraisal Journal, Spring 2012
    by: Martin Brown, Taylor Watkins
    This article describes challenges associated with appraising properties with accessory dwelling units (ADUs) and proposes an appraisal method based on income capitalization.
  • Accessory Dwelling Units as Low-Income Housing: California’s Faustian Bargain

    Urban Science, 2(3): 89, 2018
    by: Darrel Ramsey-Musolf
    This article evaluates the efficacy of a California statute that permits cities and counties to count accessory dwelling units (ADUs) toward affordable housing production goals.
  • New Hampshire Says Yes to ADUs

    AARP Livable Communities, May 2018
    by: Peter Morelli
    This article discusses how New Hampshire's zoning enabling law establishes minimum regulatory requirements for accessory dwelling units (ADUs).
  • Two Houses in One For a Home Within a Home

    AARP Livable Communities, October 2016
    by: Melissa Stanton
    This article profiles an award-winning design for a multigenerational home, which includes an integrated accessory dwelling unit with a kitchenette.
  • Zoning to Promote Garage Apartments

    Zoning Practice — May 2018
    by: Anne Brown, Vinit Mukhija, Donald Shoup, FAICP       May 01, 2018
    American cities have a large supply of garages that could be converted into affordable apartments, but off-street parking requirements often stand in the way. This issue of Zoning Practice details a proposal for zoning reforms to facilitate garage-to-apartment conversions.
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  • Practice Gentle Density

    Zoning Practice — February 2023
    This issue of Zoning Practice explores zoning strategies that balance the concerns of residents and the demands of the housing market by accommodating gentle density increases in a context-sensitive manner. From historic downtown neighborhoods to modern residential subdivisions, the tools presented can be used by planners throughout the country to implement housing policy through regulation.
  • ADUs to the Rescue?

    In the fight to end the housing crisis, California is putting its money — and its legislation — on accessory dwelling units.
    February 01, 2020
    Five new California laws aim to reduce barriers to accessory dwelling units in single-family neighborhoods.
  • The Commissioner — October 2018

    In The Commissioner's October 2018 issue: "Seattle Fine-Tunes Backyard Cottages," "On Quasi-Judicial Decision Making," "A New Approach to Redistricting," and "History at Your Fingertips."
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  • Zoning for Accessory Housing

    Zoning Practice — July 2012
    by: Thomas Daniels
    This issue of Zoning Practice outlines a strategy for incorporating accessory housing standards into local zoning codes and highlights a few examples of communities where this approach has been effective.
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