The Rosetta Stone of Zoning - with Sara Bronin

If just about anyone tells you that they totally understand zoning codes, they are probably lying to you. Well, unless they are today's guest. Sara Bronin is a Mexican-American architect, attorney, and policymaker specializing in property, land use, historic preservation, and climate change.  She's a professor of planning and law at Cornell University, and she was recently nominated by President Biden to Chair the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, pending Senate confirmation.  She founded and directs the National Zoning Atlas, a tool that aims to depict critical aspects of zoning codes nationwide in an online, user-friendly map. If there is one thing we love discussing here at Verdunity, it's zoning and how it can be improved. You won't want to miss this episode.

Links to things discussed in this episode:

Cornell Chronicle 5/17/22 National Zoning Atlas launched to make America's patchwork of codes accessible and comprehensible

National Zoning Atlas website

Bloomberg, 2/2/22 Why the U.S. Needs a National Zoning Atlas

Strong Towns, 3/30/22 Is It Time for a National Zoning Atlas?

Connecticut Public Radio/WNPR, 1/28/21, Report: The Vast Majority of Connecticut Zoning Blocks Affordable Housing

The Connecticut Mirror, 1/28/21, Data suggests dozens of towns are violating CT Supreme Court decision on exclusionary zoning

The Connecticut Mirror, 2/3/21, The Zoning ATlas – an important resource as Connecticut rethinks housing policies

Hartford Courant, 1/27/21, New zoning map shows how hard it is to build multifamily housing in Connecticut; most of state is restricted to single-family homes

https://parkingreform.org/resources/mandates-map/

The Day, 1/31/21, Study: Connecticut zoning regulations restrict expansion of affordable housing

Sara Bronin - audio/print/video works

Desegregate Connecticut website

Energy Policy Now podcast: Zoning Rules Stifle Urban Clean Energy. Can The Rules Be Rewritten?

Courier Journal, 6/9/20, Opinion: In fight for justice, zoning laws that exclude low-income people must be changed

PBS Newshour, Roads to Recovery

Next City, 6/10/22, New Digital Atlas Hopes to Demystify Urban Zoning

Governing, 6/19/22, Project Highlights Relationship Between Zoning and Affordable Housing