Reader Question: Does zoning regulation affect affordable housing? Monty’s Answer: Zoning is poorly understood. When asking why housing is becoming more expensive, consumers and politicians alike often overlook zoning and regulations. Consumers don’t know how and don’t have the power ...

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Allowing for even modest amounts of new density in the nation’s overwhelmingly single-family neighborhoods could lead to millions of new homes nationwide, according to a Zillow® analysis, helping alleviate a housing affordability crisis that has been decades in the making. ...

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Shaping development in a booming Charlotte is a tricky proposition and will take a uniting of businesses, academic institutions, municipal governments, citizens and others to do it successfully, a panel of planners, architects and others said last week. The pitfall ...

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Overall, Charlotte is booming. The city in recent years has added 28,000 housing units, 52,000 vehicles, 8 million square feet of commercial space, 1,160 hotel rooms and 100 retail establishments. But with the growth have come concerns about traffic congestion, ...

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The long-awaited overhaul of Mecklenburg County zoning regulations is underway but any change is years away, likely only after fits and starts and not until policymakers reach agreement. A meeting last week of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission’s planning committee, a ...

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The village of Marvin has called for a public hearing Feb. 9 on proposed revisions to its subdivision ordinance. The text amendments would create a new category of subdivision that seeks to streamline the rezoning process, according to the Village ...

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The Concord City Council has asked opponents of a proposed 551-house subdivision to meet with developers in an effort to work out their differences. The council voted 6-0 to have the two sides talk after holding a public hearing in ...

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CHARLOTTE — The City Council on Monday denied a rezoning petition for a large mixed-use project in the Cherry neighborhood and deferred a decision on a smaller single-family residential development in Plaza Midwood. But the council approved several projects at ...

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Civic By Design and the Levine Museum of the New South are hosting a forum to discuss form-based development versus traditional use-based zoning from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Nov. 11. Form-based codes regulate the way that development fits in with a community ...

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A Macon County town wants to prove that a local landscaper is violating regulations by using a residential zone for commercial purposes. Problem is, it can’t seem to find the proof. In Shearl v. Town of Highlands, the town claims ...

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