Community Architect Daily

MAY 13, 2023

A full 10 years after the development of the " Superblock " in the old retail heart of downtown had crashed spectacularly and the Mayor had pulled the plug on a developer who hadn't produced a viable project in eight years, a new take-off is still far away. The third partner is Jayson Williams, CEO of Mayson Dixon Companies.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Now, there are two more news items to add to the list of developments. In August, 2022 the California Senate voted to pass SB 897 (a brand-new law that clarifies previous ADU legislation), and the California Department of Housing and Community Development updated their ADU Handbook. Concurrent Permit Review. Multifamily.

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Community Architect

APRIL 20, 2024

Traces of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Boston's Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, promoted by a visionary developer, designed by a Harvard Dean of architecture, nearly defeated in a referendum, those are the ingredients that made Baltimore's HarborPlace a model for urban waterfronts around the world nearly half a century ago.

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Community Architect

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In many cities, R1 prevents housing development where development would be most beneficial and instead pushes development—and conflict over it—into denser, lower income neighborhoods, onto polluted commercial corridors, and into the undeveloped land outside city boundaries. Europe has local zoning as well. This bill will [.]

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Community Architect

JUNE 9, 2022

Introduction to the guest blog When in 1968 the then President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), Robert Durham, FAIA, extended an invitation to the executive director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. Fig 7: Urban segregation (Photo by author) Inspired by Eric Klinenberg (2018, p. Charlesworth, 2018).

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 8, 2023

In Providence, they can simply choose to obey the law and encourage developers to do likewise. Developers may regret the upfront cost of such a shift, but they will save money over the long run as design review and permitting is simplified, and as the public learns to understand that new buildings need no longer be a cause for anxiety.

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Community Architect Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Does single family zoning prevent development? The bill mandates nothing but it allows additional use options by permitting accessory dwelling units and, under certain circumstances, dividing single family homes into two or more units. This bill will chuck it and allow developers and slumlords to decimate stable neighborhoods. (Ed

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