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Zoning & Land Use
Zoning and land use rules, and how they change. Thesis Driven examines rezonings and area plans, ADU and missing middle legalization, parking reform, inclusionary requirements, entitlement and design review, building code reform including single stair, builder's remedy and ministerial approval, preemption fights between states and cities, court rulings that reset the rules, and the local board decisions that unlock or block projects.
31 articles
What's Happening in Local Land Use | Q1 2026
Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions with Shovels Decisions
Deep Dive: Angeleno & Affordable Housing Development in Los Angeles
How Angeleno is structuring deals and executing projects in a market where affordable housing is notoriously difficult to build
California’s New City Might Actually Happen
An update on California Forever’s plans to build a 400,000-person city in Solano County
What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q1 2026
Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions
Shovels, ReZone, and the Local Data Problem
First, let's get the news out of the way: ReZone, a company Thesis Driven co-founded and incubated,
What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q4 2025
Tracking the past three months of notable land use and zoning decisions
Autonomous Vehicles Are a Moral Imperative
Driverless technology is crossing the chasm to must-have while our politicians doze (at best)
What’s Happening in Local Land Use | Q3 2025
Tracking the past three months of notable local land use and zoning decisions
The Most Important Housing Bill You've Never Heard Of
Why Oregon's HB 2258 could be a model for solving the housing crisis
The YIMBY Army Marches
Developers faced with difficult entitlements are increasingly turning to a new ally: housing advocates