Zoning
CommunityScale’s team members have experience crafting zoning across the United States. Much of our zoning work coincides with our housing needs assessment product, including authoring zoning code that enables mixed-use, walkable environments and missing middle housing. We offer both tactical district-by-district zoning reform as well as complete reformation of a town or city’s zoning ordinance.
Solutions
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Comprehensive Rezoning
Complete rewrite of existing zoning code with or without map amendments. CommunityScale focuses on compliance with enabling legislation, legibility, and achieving community goals through the rezoning process.
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Zoning District
Walkable, mixed-use, and transit-oriented zoning districts can enable the creation of great infill and new neighborhoods.
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Zoning Audit
Detailed review of existing zoning compared to the community’s goals, looking for issues that can be corrected in a complete rezoning or in a new district. The audit can look at both legal issues as well as issues with the dimensional and use tables contributing to widescale nonconformity.
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Zoning Interactive Map
Detailed review of existing zoning compared to the community’s goals, hosted open source.
CommunityScale’s zoning work and research
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Diving into Portland, OR’s multifamily zoning incentives
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How zoning for data centers could actually benefit your community
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Housing for the 21st Century Act & ROAD to Housing Act
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Corporate ownership of single-family homes
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Rolling out new State-required multifamily zoning
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West Natick Mixed-Use Zoning Support
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Our approach to open source mapping
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CommunityScale kicks off comprehensive rezoning for Lowell, MA
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Sherborn Multifamily Zoning Overlay
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Nesting zoning use definitions into functional groups
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CommunityScale in the news: Lynn Council votes to ‘modernize’ zoning regulations
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City of Lynn Comprehensive Zoning Rewrite