The articles here focus on municipal policies and regulations that produce either urban sprawl (in both its horizontal and vertical dimensions) or human-scale development.
Community-minded developers still face barriers to building walkable, human-scale development. National organizations have an opportunity to help eliminate known barriers in municipalities across the country.
Search results on Realtor.com indicate the rule of perpetual urban sprawl still applies. Gaithersburg, MD is an exception to the rule.
If a local government is going to break the rule of perpetual urban sprawl it needs to realize four specific achievements.
Zoning isn’t the problem. Single-use zoning is the problem.
Berkeley, California is the birthplace of a tool local governments across the country have used for over a century to keep the undesirables at bay.
Gaithersburg was the first municipality in the U.S. to break the rule of perpetual urban sprawl. This deep dive explores how they did it.
