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How to make a mockery of planning

Community Architect Daily

Masterplans are supposed to define the long-term future of an entire county or city, connect aspirations, regulations and resources into a long-term roadmap that provides transparency, predictability and guides all future actions, including resource allocation. Bill 03-24 withdrawn, masterplan gutted.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Re-zoning: The hottest trend? Fear of density, however, remains.

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Boston Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines & Zoning Overlay District // Utile, Inc.

Architizer

As a critical step in the City’s Climate Ready Boston Initiative, Utile led the development of Boston’s first Coastal Resilience Design Guidelines and recommendations for a citywide zoning overlay in collaboration with the Boston Planning and Development Agency. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc.

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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

Thus there is some public governance with a County Executive, a council, a planning commission, and a full set of zoning regulations which create a sort of umbrella of rules and representation. Zoning is a public control while covenants are private controls (except when public government uses them, which is possible as well ).

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Is Density a Dirty Word or a Solution?

Community Architect

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Re-zoning: The hottest trend? Fear of density, however, remains.

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Competitions: Greening the Industrial City

Bustler

Registration Deadline: Sep 16, 2022; Submission Deadline Oct 18, 2022 Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the US, is the largest metropolitan area in the US without zoning regulations. As a result, the city is a patchwork of uses with industrial and commercial zones ensconced in residential neighborhoods.

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"Cities born fully formed are simply bad ideas thrown at the world"

Deezen

It would comprise a domed 50-acre business district, underground transportation, an automated rubbish collection service, and carefully delineated residential, commercial, and recreational zones. "It As an EPCOT-type city of the masterplanned community, Songdo's no one-off. It will be a planned, controlled community," explained Disney.

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