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In June 2023, Boise City Council unanimously approved a rewrite of the city's zoning code that allowed duplexes and cottage court homes on most of the city's residential land. Small portions of the city were excluded from the upzoning. The new code took effect on December 1, 2023. [32]
At least 76 California cities passed similar ordinances by the start of 2023. ... “The City of Berkeley deserves a lot of credit for acting quickly in 2019 to protect its residents from health ...
Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...
California Senate Bill 1534 (SB 1534, Government Code section 65852.2) is a 1982 California statute law which established statewide options for local governments to promote and regulate secondary suites, also known as "accessory dwelling units" (ADUs) in California.
Berkeley’s City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt an ordinance giving the title of the land to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, a San Francisco Bay Area collective led by women that works ...
When Costa–Hawkins was enacted, existing California law made "no statutory provision for, but does not prohibit, the adoption of local rent control ordinances. Case law, Birkenfeld v. City of Berkeley (1976) 17 Cal. 3d 129, held that rent control is a proper exercise of a local government's police power if it is reasonably calculated to ...
Spot zoning is the application of zoning to a specific parcel or parcels of land within a larger zoned area when the rezoning is usually at odds with a city's master plan and current zoning restrictions. Spot zoning may be ruled invalid as an "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable treatment" of a limited parcel of land by a local zoning ...
Berkeley (/ ˈ b ɜːr k l i / BURK-lee) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States.It is named after the 18th-century Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley.