NZA leaders in Montana, Tennessee, & California share how zoning atlases are the analytical tool lawmakers are missing when it comes to counteracting harmful zoning practices.

Introduces the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas and evaluates its findings in the Monadnock Region.

Cites the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas in identifying restrictive zoning as a cause of the state’s record-high home prices.

Provides an overview of findings from the “Bringing Zoning into Focus” report that studies zoning’s relationship to racial and economic segregation using the Connecticut Zoning Atlas dataset.

Covers findings from the Middle Tennessee Zoning Atlas that reveal a highly restrictive regulatory landscape.

Article summarizing findings from the Tennessee Zoning Atlas’s Middle Tennessee Zoning Atlas, highlighting how the region’s exclusionary zoning affects housing costs.

Coverage of the release of the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas.

The article highlights findings from the Connecticut Zoning Atlas, emphasizing how the state's local zoning ordinances, predominantly favoring single-family homes, impede efforts to reduce vehicle emissions.

Overview of the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas’s methods and launch announcement, highlighting its use to guide conversations about development, economic opportunity, and density.

Overview of initial findings from the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas, offering the analysis that exclusionary zoning measures blunt statewide economic growth.

Covers methodology and major findings from the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas.

Celebrates the launch of the New Hampshire Zoning Atlas, emphasizing its potential role in addressing the state’s housing crisis.

The New Hampshire Zoning Atlas, launching online at nhzoningatlas.org, maps out zoning regulations across 269 jurisdictions. This $100,000 project, involving over 20 contributors, reveals varied local rules like Kingston's four-parking-space requirement for single-family homes and Amherst's large land requirements for multi-family housing. Key insights include heavy restrictions on small-lot single-family homes, with only 16% of buildable land zoned for such use, and more than half of zoning districts banning larger multi-family buildings. The Atlas aims to help communities understand regional zoning practices and address housing shortages by promoting more balanced development.

Local coverage of zoning reform bills, informed by findings from the Montana Zoning Atlas, proposed in Montana’s 2023 legislative session.

Connects research from the Montana Zoning Atlas to advocacy efforts in favor of addressing exclusionary zoning conditions in the Mountain West.

Aaron Houck of the North Carolina Zoning Atlas outlines the process and impetus for the creation of a zoning atlas covering the fourteen-county Charlotte region.

Coverage of Montana Zoning Atlas report highlighting how Montana’s severe zoning restrictions undercut efforts to build much-needed multi-family housing throughout the state.

Opinion piece from Montana Zoning Atlas Director Kendall Cotton outlining key findings from the newly completed Montana Zoning Atlas that show how zoning constraints contribute to the state’s housing crisis.

Discusses the progress of the Hawaii Zoning Atlas and the National Zoning Atlas, highlighting recent local examples of zoning limiting the construction of new affordable housing.

Opinion piece from Kendall Cotton, Director of the Montana Zoning Atlas, explaining how restrictive zoning increases housing prices and produces sprawl as Montana experiences rising housing demand.