National Zoning Atlas

Today, I had the pleasure of joining the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's 90-year celebration by attending the "Untangling Zoning Impacts and Promoting Equity Through Reform" presentation. The panel, featuring esteemed speakers Sara C. Bronin, Yonah Freemark, and Nolan Gray, and moderated by Morgan Malone., provided great insights into understanding #zoning laws and #land use and their impact on our lives. The event was incredibly informative, shedding light on how past and current zoning laws shape our lives and how we can leverage these impacts to design and influence future #communities and #cultures. Some takeaways for me included the importance of rethinking outdated zoning laws that no longer serve community needs and require reform to promote #equity and #inclusivity. I also learned about the efforts towards making the #legislative process more inclusive, ensuring all voices in the community are heard. The panelists highlighted a #vision of reducing car dependency by discouraging new #road #construction and enhancing #public #transportation and #walkability, which can foster better economies and more equitable communities. I was also #inspired by the dedication and enthusiasm that the speakers have towards improving people's lives, and their willingness to use their knowledge and abilities to promote a better life experience for everyone. Special thanks to City Colleges of Chicago-Harold Washington College for hosting the event and for their great hospitality. Looking forward to more events like this! #urbanplanning #urbandesign #MPC #zoninglaws #zoning #landuse #publicengagement #architecture #urban #builtenvironement #learning #inspire #post #engineering

The Vermont Zoning Atlas team has made enormous strides this summer! We are almost completely finished with our first round of analysis and mapping. We are thrilled to partner with VT Agency of Commerce & Community Development, The Vermont Center for Geographic Information, Inc., and VERSO (UVM's Open Source Program Office) as they begin integrating the data we've collected into open-source, user-friendly interfaces for you to be able to visualize and explore statewide findings! Stay tuned as we get closer to the finish line! 🏁

Brilliant conversation today brought to the Chicago planning community by Metropolitan Planning Council's Untangling Zoning project and City Bureau. Yonah Freemark from the Urban Institute, Sara Bronin of the National Zoning Atlas, and author Nolan Gray answered some challenging questions about what zoning means to communities 100 years after its initial institution and how planners and policymakers are innovating. Some takeaways I'm still chewing on: 🏘 focusing on preserving existing affordable housing in neighborhoods threatened by gentrification; 🛠 reforming the housing development process; 🚍 and how we can push federal and state transportation agencies to invest in walking, biking, and public transport.

Tomorrow! Catch Metropolitan Planning Council's "Untangling Zoning Impacts and Promoting Equity Through Reform" panel with Sara C. Bronin, Morgan M., Yonah Freemark, and Nolan Gray. Virtual and in-person registration at https://lnkd.in/eNawiqpK

Pro-housing, climate, safe streets & zoning for equity your jam? Join Metropolitan Planning Council with special guests Sara C. Bronin, Yonah Freemark, and Nolan Gray in Chicago for tomorrow's pre-panel happy hour! Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist at https://lnkd.in/dPhjkWr8

Missed one of the events in our Metro Area Snapshot Series? No sweat! 😅 Watch NZA staff present zoning analyses for the Las Vegas, Jacksonville, Denver, and Phoenix metropolitan statistical areas any time on our YouTube channel at https://lnkd.in/eZigEu3E & stay tuned for more installments coming soon!

Upcoming Chicago event! 🌞 NZA founder and director Sara C. Bronin joins Morgan M., Yonah Freemark, and Nolan Gray on Metropolitan Planning Council's powerhouse panel exploring zoning's impact on our lives, from local to national perspectives. Virtual & in-person registration at https://lnkd.in/eNawiqpK

A resounding thank you to Clancy McConnell, Ph.D. for his leadership with the UC Davis Center for Regional Change California Zoning Atlas team. His contributions are helping transform California's zoning data landscape, among the country's largest and most complex, into a democratically accessible single-source map — all the while shepherding the next generation of planners, policy analysts, and data scientists. No easy task! 💜

Join us this Tuesday, 12pm PT, for an in-depth look at Phoenix area zoning! You'll hear from the analysts who inputted Phoenix data into the Zoning Atlas, learn best practices for using the map, and dig into MSA-wide findings. Register at zoningatlas.org/events This event is the fourth installment of our Metro Area Snapshot Series where we showcase first-of-its-kind zoning analyses for metro areas as they come online on our national map (explore at zoningatlas.org/atlas). Compare and contrast previous snapshots at zoningatlas.org/snapshots!

For fans of affordable housing production, preservation, and smart regional growth—and want to learn how the National Zoning Atlas ties it all together—check out this PreserveCast interview with Maria Tova Enriquez Dougherty! Maria is a Senior Associate with HDAdvisors and HousingForward Virginia who has been a key contributor helping to build out the Virginia Zoning Atlas (https://lnkd.in/eW37HJrD). Listen here!: https://lnkd.in/eUEpPAbs