Local Ordinance, Housing Market, Municipalities

Denver Proposes to Eliminate All Minimum Vehicle Parking Requirements

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC on 4/22/2025

The City of Denver (“Denver”) released the first draft of its proposed amendment to the Denver Zoning Code (“Zoning Code”) known as Modernizing Parking Requirements Text Amendment (“Text Amendment”), in which it proposes...more

Green Fast Track for Housing Rule to Streamline Residential Development in NYC

Venable LLP on 8/14/2024

As part of Mayor Eric Adams' "Get Stuff Built" initiative to increase housing supply and reduce regulatory constraints on new development, the New York City Planning Commission approved the Green Fast Track for Housing Rule...more

Orange County Continues to Push Charter Amendments Pertaining to the Rural Boundary and Voluntary Annexations

Lowndes on 7/29/2024

After the Charter amendments suggested by the Orange County Charter Review Committee discussed in “Proposed Charter Changes Threaten Orange County's Economic Future” were blocked by the Florida Legislature as discussed in...more

Building Opportunities in the Bay State

DarrowEverett LLP on 10/18/2022

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is addressing the housing crisis in a unique way that may allow certain property owners close to public transit the opportunity to construct multi-family housing where it may not have been...more

Head’s Up: Increased Risk of Consumer Class Actions With Growing Trend of Local Restrictions on Reporting and Considering...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 2/11/2020

On January 21, 2020, the Oakland City Council unanimously passed the Fair Chance Housing Ordinance (“FCHO”), which will restrict landlords in their ability to reject a potential tenant because of prior criminal history. It...more

Charter Cities Must Adhere to Affordable Housing Requirements of the Surplus Lands Act

Perkins Coie on 1/10/2020

The statewide concerns underlying the affordable housing provisions of the Surplus Lands Act superseded municipal home rule authority on the same subject and hence required charter cities to comply with the affordable housing...more

Farewell to Costa-Hawkins Agreements for On-Site Affordable Rental Units in SF

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass on 3/19/2018

San Francisco wasted no time implementing AB 1505, which authorizes localities to adopt ordinances requiring developers to provide on-site inclusionary affordable housing units in rental projects, provided that there is an...more

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