Urbanism Upzoning A Potential Aid For Affordable Housing And Historic Preservation Woes Changing zoning laws in historic neighborhoods to allow for more density and multifamily conversions could be one smart solution for affordable housing and historic preservation issues. Jacqueline Drayer takes a ...
Preservation City Council To Vote On Ridge Avenue Demo Moratorium A bill to place a temporary hold on demolition applications for 300+ historic properties along Ridge Avenue goes before City Council tomorrow. Michael Bixler has the ...
Development Bill Mandating Set-Asides For Affordable Housing Tabled City Council held a five hour hearing today on the controversial Mixed Income Housing Program bill. GroJLart has the ...
Development Circling Back To The Ross Loopholes Garage-front houses are going up across from the Betsy Ross House because the developers of the houses exploited a trifecta of loopholes in the regulatory system. Following up on an earlier report, Nathaniel Popkin peers ...
Development Future Of American Street Hinges On Soko Lofts Parcel, Now For Sale How did Soko Lofts grow from 160 units to 320 to possibly 600? And what will happen to the parcel now that the developer has put it for sale? Aaron Kase looks for answers to ...
Development Weighing Directions As South Kensington Evolves In this first of a three part series on the future of South Kensington, reporter Aaron Kase finds a neighborhood perched on the ...
Urbanism O’Neill’s Attempt To Repeal New Commercial Zoning In NE Advances; Here’s Why It Matters Castor Avenue is poised to become the Northeast's "downtown"--the kind of a walkable and engaging shopping district the growing Northeast deserves. Maneuvers in City Council today may mean another wasted opportunity, argues writer--and Oxford Circle ...
