Journal
New Commercial Strip Mall Policy Provides Great Affordable Housing Development Opportunities
Two tremendous new companion policies for increasing affordable housing development were signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September 2022. As many as two million new units of affordable housing could be built statewide because of them.
25 Great Ideas of the New Urbanism
The New Urbanism is a design movement toward complete, compact, connected communities—but it is also a generator of ideas that transform the landscape. The 25 ideas listed here offer a panoramic view of the New Urbanism, one that reaches to the horizon and beyond.
Objective Design Standards Are Form-Based Codes
The state of California is responding to the nation’s second highest housing costs (behind only Hawaii) with regulatory reforms that promote form-based codes along transit lines and commercial corridors.
Thought leadership for the next generation of neighborhood building.
Building towns and cities people love is an art, science, and technical endeavor requiring knowledge of zoning code, development finance, and a multitude of other disciplines.
Learn what it takes to make a great neighborhood from resources compiled by our board members.