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Parking Reform

SW Oregon Architect

20-04 in March of 2020, which directed all state agencies to take actions to reduce and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In response, the Oregon Land Conservation and Development Commission updated Oregon’s Transportation Planning Rules to launch the Climate-Friendly and Equitable Communities (CFEC) program in July 2022.

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Seattle is building more accessory dwellings than single-family houses

Brandon Donnelly

The result is that the city is now permitting close to 1,000 ADUs per year (2022 figure). And for the first time ever, this figure now exceeds the number of permits issued for single-family houses. And since they were launched in September 2020, these plans have been permitted 130 times.

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Fulton River District In Line For Another Skyscraper

Chicago Architecture

The new plan is from Vornado , the company that used to sell me rust-colored corduroy dungarees when I was a child, but is now a billion-dollar real estate developer. This is significantly smaller than the maximums that City Council approved for this space back in June of 2020, so the design does not need any further approval.

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Use-it-or-lose-it entitlements

Brandon Donnelly

And development land should not sit undeveloped. And so it has been suggested that this would incentivize developers to not sit on entitled land. While I do understand where this line of thinking is coming from, let me make a few points: Generally speaking, most developers don’t just sit on entitled land for fun.

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Superblock: Still far from Take-Off

Community Architect Daily

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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What Role Do Architects Play In The Global Housing Crisis?

Architizer

Catchphrases like ‘gentrification,’ ‘political agenda’ and ‘financialization of real estate’ are used to try and rationalize why the majority of the world’s population cannot afford safe, permanent shelter. 3D Printing Process by ICON Photograph by Regan Morton Photography. and by a mere 0.6%

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Revolutionizing Urban Living: MicroPolis Offers Affordable Housing Solutions in NYC’s Empty Spaces

Architizer

Esther Sperber: MicroPolis is a response to a February 2020 court case that revoked the building permit for the top 20 floors of a Manhattan luxury condominium because it used gerrymandering-style tax lot assembly tactics to justify the request for a very tall building. . NYC’s real estate exposes the city’s socio-economic inequities.

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