Burlington, a small city of 40,000 in northern Vermont, is acclaimed for many progressive affordable housing initiatives that it has adopted. Its inclusionary program, first adopted in 1990 and modified once since then, draws upon and incorporates many of the best practices developed elsewhere, while introducing innovations of its own – notably, imposing a higher affordable housing obligation on developments serving higher income levels.
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Archives for December 2009
Burlington VT : ‘Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance’
December 22, 2009
Boston MA : ‘Inclusionary Development Policy’
December 22, 2009
Boston, a city of 600,000, established its program in 2000 by executive order of its mayor, and modified it on several occasions since then. It nominally applies only to new developments needing a re-zoning approval, but in reality affects all new developments because of the city’s archaic by-laws. The program imposes a fixed inclusionary obligation on all new developments, but unlike its predecessors allows for the cost off-sets to be determined through negotiation.
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Can Inclusionary Zoning Help Address the Shortage of Affordable Housing in Toronto?
December 20, 2009
Julie Mah: Can Inclusionary Zoning Help Address the Shortage of Affordable Housing Toronto?; Canadian Policy Research, December 2009.
This report reviews the basics and economics of inclusionary zoning, looks at the inclusionary practices in Vancouver and Montreal, and examines the legal and practical issues of adapting inclusionary zoning in Toronto. Read the report.
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Inclusionary Zoning for the Provision of Affordable Housing
December 1, 2009
Nellie Chang: Inclusionary Housing for the Provision of Affordable Housing: A Comparative Analysis of Vancouver and San Francisco; Symposium on Affordable and Sustainable Housing, University of British Columbia; October 2009.
This paper examines and compares the inclusionary policies of Vancouver and San Francisco. Read the report.
This hedgehog with a complicated name smiles and say thank you. So buy levitra and send it to the forest. There’s a lot of thankful. Quiet decide how many send and you can do it.