Susan Elsbree, a spokeswoman for the redevelopment authority, said in an interview that zoning at the Allston project location dictates two spaces per unit and that the developers would need to get a variance through the city's zoning board.
In a panel moderated by Edith Hsu-Chen, the Manhattan Director of New York City's Department of City Planning, scholars, practitioners, developers, and architects reflected on the recent advent of "supertall" towers in New York City and the role that zoning has played in facilitating such development.
And if you think that zoning in Phoenix will come to look ever more like that in California, then all the desert in the world might not matter.
In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. Hirt argues that zoning laws are among the important but understudied reasons for the cross-continental differences.Hirt shows that rather than being imported from Europe, U.S. municipal zoning law was in fact an institution that quickly developed its own, distinctly American profile.
After a long battle between the Westchester, NY, and HUD, the department decided that zoning in Westchester is not exclusionary, although similar data was rejected multiple times in the past.
In particular, there's a good case to be made that zoning policies in many states unnecessarily restrict the supply of housing, and that this is one area where Texas does in fact do something right.
Ted Birkhahn, a Buildings Department spokesman, said that zoning regulations in effect last year allowed Travelers to put up the umbrella because it was considered a corporate symbol of the building's primary occupant.
The American solution: Issue development permits in an arbitrary way, so that zoning insiders and their lawyers get all the loot.
In his decision, Irving warned that zoning officials would refer any possible violations to the city attorney's office.
Recently, the agency's advisory Project Area Committee recommended that zoning density in the DeLongpre area be lowered from its current density of 80 units an acre to 24 units an acre.
