Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 28, 2023

Note that each local jurisdiction in the Monterey Bay area – Cities of Santa Cruz, Capitola, Watsonville, and Scotts Valley – each have their own, specific regulations: this article applies specifically to ADU regulations particular to the unincorporated areas of Santa Cruz County.

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based Stayner Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series east to New York City, where we find ODA Architecture. Founded in 2007, the studio has developed an international reputation for delivering what it describes as “imaginative and mold-breaking designs.”

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The role, based in New York City, calls for an individual to join a practice “recognized worldwide for its creative interfacing of landscape and architecture.”

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Community Architect Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Does single family zoning prevent development? A problem all across America, even in cities like Baltimore with its many undervalued or vacant properties. Today we will look at Baltimore Councilman Ryan Dorsey's zoning bill titled " Abundant Housing Act " which effectively will eliminate single family zoning in Baltimore.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Plus One ADU pilot program launched this week and will fund up to 15 projects throughout the city. In a new initiative that launched this week, New York City residential building owners could begin receiving financial support to construct new accessory dwelling units (ADUs).

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 19, 2024

For one, Euclidean land-use regulations historically downzoned urban areas, effectively banning multifamily housing while promoting suburban sprawl. Apparently, a reason for Japan's success lies in its unusual degree of national control over zoning and building rules, which overrides local housing obstructionism. Lessons from Japan?

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Portland Architecture

APRIL 29, 2021

And that's before he wrote the world's first book about composite materials in architecture, became a Portland State University professor, and founded a software company to visualize complex zoning codes. Recently I talked with Truong to learn more about all these things: composite materials, zoning, education, mass timber.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is wasting no time dismantling the regulatory process that’s long been held up as the source and exacerbator of the city’s intertwined homelessness and affordable housing crises. The directive will also waive the discretionary review process of all developments not requiring zoning changes.

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Community Architect Daily

MAY 7, 2024

But this is a different story in which the question of "who owns the city?" poses itself in a unique way So there are similarities and stark differences: This story doesn't include an elected mayor making deals with developers, there is no city charter that needs to be amended, nor is there a public private-partnership.

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BD+C

AUGUST 9, 2019

With housing affordability reaching crisis proportions in many cities, local officials are implementing new zoning regulations to catalyze more home construction. It has been estimated that 20% of the variation in housing growth from one area to another can be attributed to density regulations.

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BD+C

AUGUST 21, 2014

have loosened zoning restrictions in recent years. Cities are opting to use form-based codes, a concept less concerned with the use of buildings and more with their appearance and the way they relate to each other. Regulations Codes and Standards' Driven by New Urbanism, more than two dozen communities in the U.S.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Called Fishmarket, the multipurpose creative and living space was designed for Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa , who lives in London but regularly visits his home city of Kanazawa. Building regulations also dictated some of the design decisions, such as the need to line certain walls with plywood panels. The photography is by Takumi Ota.

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 9, 2022

Local zoning and land use policies have also contributed to the present dilemma. Overlay districts and Special Area Zones are not the silver bullet. They can mitigate some shortcomings of Euclidean zoning, but they also add a layer of complexity to regulations most people already have difficulty understanding.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

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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Bustler

AUGUST 6, 2023

Registration Deadline: Oct 25, 2023; Submission Deadline Oct 25, 2023 Premise The Chernobyl Rewilding competition calls architects to envision a transformative city that reawakens the natural world within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Sustainable approaches are vital to ensure that this new city thrives amidst its unique context.

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Architizer

MARCH 31, 2022

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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Architizer

AUGUST 25, 2023

COVID-19 has left many office buildings half-empty in city downtowns across the United States, and as vacancies rise, commercial property values drop. Banks, city governments and property management companies fear the severity of the situation and its potentially dismal economic consequences. Difficulties don’t end here.

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Clark Richardson | Architect & Sustainability

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

For folks who have a property on Lake Austin or are thinking about buying one, understanding the ins and outs of the Lake Austin (LA) Zoning Overlay and how it relates to development is critical. SF-2 or SF-3) or have no zoning and keep their lots governed only by the LA Zoning.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over that time he has served as an architect, planner, educator, and an advisor to cities in and beyond the US, including Charleston, South Carolina, Omaha, and New York City, where he was Director of Urban Design in the Department of City Planning.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 21, 2022

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre. Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. RBS Regulation and technical consultant: ???????????????

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Community Architect Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

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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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. Supported by new scientific research institutes and driven by environmental considerations, the city is becoming a centre for developing industries focussing on new energy and materials, artificial intelligence and aerospace.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 6, 2022

As I suspect many other homeowners residing in one of Eugene’s R-1 low-density neighborhoods did, my wife and I received a mailer from Housing-Facts.org this past week beseeching us to learn more about the City of Eugene’s pending Middle Housing code amendments. Therein lies the rub.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Proponents of the built-from-scratch smart cities emerging around the globe fail to understand that communities cannot be created through technological innovation, write Adam Scott and Dave Waddell. Read: Ten futuristic cities set to be built around the world. It will be a planned, controlled community," explained Disney. "It

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Santa Cruz Architect

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The California Coastal Commission is a state agency with quasi-judicial regulatory oversight over land use and public access in the California coastal zone. The Coastal Zone is described as the area from the Mean High Tide Line to a distance of between a couple of hundred feet in urban areas, to up to several miles in rural areas.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Even seemingly apolitical concepts like the 15-minute city have become battlegrounds. Misinterpretations fueled by distrust has led to the politicization of mobility in cities. Urban planning, zoning regulations, and the allocation of resources in a city are inherently political processes that shape the built environment.

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Santa Cruz Architect

APRIL 19, 2023

The City Beautiful Movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities. visited many of the great cities of Europe. The Washington, D.C. They hoped to make Washington, D.C.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2023

The home's shape, height and positioning were largely dictated by local zoning regulations. The house's shape was largely dictated by local zoning regulations Exterior walls are clad in black stucco. The interior is just 11 feet wide (3.4 At its highest point, the home rises about 43 feet (13 metres).

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Community Architect Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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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Dwell

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Even as cities across the country loosen regulations around accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in an effort to boost housing stock, financing issues still present a major roadblock for homeowners and potential buyers. Photo by Chris Miele, courtesy of T+E+A+M The initiative aims to make it easier to qualify.

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The Architecture Designs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Key to navigating this complex landscape is an understanding and adherence to building codes and regulations. Environmental regulations are another crucial aspect. Non-compliance with these regulations, especially when handling hazardous materials, can lead to significant legal repercussions.

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Community Architect

MARCH 8, 2024

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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Community Architect

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It makes up more than half of all US residential accommodations and in many cities it is written into the code as the right and only form to live. Or, more precisely, and even more mundane, the zoning that enables it. The history of zoning Zoning in general rarely gets much attention these days. That’s the problem.”

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

There hasn’t exactly been an explosion of new accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in Chicago since its city council passed an ADU pilot ordinance in 2020, which allows for new coach houses and basement or attic renovations to add additional units in certain parts of the city.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

New zoning regulations that encourage multifamily projects are transforming downtowns in several New Jersey cities. Regulations Codes and Standards'

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Deezen

JUNE 24, 2023

The spaces created stimulate imagination and surprise, instead of simply following the rules and regulations." The school is located on a sloped site The school sits on a playfully sloped site in the coastal city of Haikou and comprises a series of curved volumes and rectilinear forms that intersect under a concrete roof.

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 18, 2021

The Eugene City Council meets tomorrow (Monday, July 19) at 5:30 PM to conduct a hearing on the topic of a proposed amendment to Commercial Setback requirements in the Eugene Code. Likewise, the C-2 and C-3 zones should not be treated identically, except in the Downtown Transit Overlay District (as they are now).

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