• Best practices for ending exclusive single-family zoning

    Your city or state just allowed—or is considering allowing—multiple units on every lot. Here are six tips for successful implementation of the Missing Middle.
    Last year was a groundbreaking one for housing policy and legislation to enable Missing Middle Housing across cities and states. Minneapolis adopted a policy to allow up to three units on any lot, even those zoned for single-family. Oregon passed HB 2001, effectively eliminating exclusive single-...Read more

  • ‘Car-free’ development breaks ground in Arizona

    Large mixed-use apartment complex in the midst of suburbia will be laid out like a European village with architecture appropriate to the southwestern desert.
    It’s not very often that a planned new urban community gets national coverage in the Wall Street Journal , Forbes , and Fast Company , among other publications. Yet that’s the case with the 16-acre Culdesac Tempe (something of a misnomer because the project has no cul-de-sacs—not in the common...Read more

  • Atlanta zoning update addresses parking, ADUs, missing middle

    Atlanta is growing at an "unprecedented rate" and is trying to become more multimodal and less car-centric.
    The City of Atlanta recently adopted a zoning update designed to accommodate a growing population—including reductions in off-street parking requirements and more opportunities for “missing middle” housing types and accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in single-family neighborhoods. The update resulted...Read more