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The development standards seek to increase density in certain districts and to prevent the loss of housing units when buildings are torn down and re-constructed.
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Boise is having a moment: Redoing its zoning, not project-by-project, but weaving a brand new fabricBoise, like most American cities, has been trying to design a community, project-by-project, for quite some time. But that was then.
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As populations grow and housing options shrink, one author looks at how density is changing in cities like Boise.
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With Boise in the throes of a broad rewrite of its zoning code, Max Holleran, author of “Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing,” says, “I think I could write a whole other book of cities that have just exploded in their populations and the desire for more housing - places that are beautiful and have a lot of natural assets, like Boise.”
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The City of Boise’s new director of Planning and Development Services says wasting time on designing dysfunctional highways is “time that’s misplaced because it hasn’t worked in any city, anywhere in the world.”
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After last year’s outcry over a proposed CVS pharmacy on State Street, the City of Boise is looking to create a more pedestrian-friendly zone west of…