zoning
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Both the Senate and House bills direct the federal government to establish best zoning practices for state and local leaders, though city officials can ignore them if they want.
To keep the peace, they learned to institute a strict zoning law: All talk of hockey strategy stayed in the car.
The policy list includes streamlining the federal permitting process and using federal grants to incentivize local governments to enact zoning overhauls, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The party is pushing measures to expand the supply of housing, and cut down on what they call “restrictive” single-family zoning in favor of denser development.
From Los Angeles Times
It is hard to come up with a national policy to boost housing supply, anyway: Land-use restrictions and zoning laws are set by more than 33,000 different local entities across the country.
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