How to Build Affordable, Thriving Neighborhoods: A State and Local Zoning Reform Toolkit

September 2020

By: Emily Hamilton, State Policy Network

https://www.grassrootinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ZONING-TOOLKIT-WEB-1-compressed-1-1.pdf
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Table of Contents

Housing Supply Planning

Planning and Zoning Enabling Laws

Zoning Reform and Code Writing

 

 

This guide explains seven local zoning and state enabling law reform strategies that could improve housing choice and affordability:

  1. Build on on your city's strengths.
  2. Streamline building processes to be simpler, faster, and fairer.
  3. Allow housing for every level of income.
  4. Reduce or remove restrictions unrelated to health and safety.
  5. Replace restrictions with community-based solutions.
  6. Replace rigid frameworks with flexible ones to enable communities to evolve.
  7. Protect property rights and affordability at the state house.