Strong Towns describes some ways to "test drive" the zoning code, to see if actually building a small scale, walkable building is feasible under current code.
Link Round-up: Street Design
Ignoring Supply and Demand raises housing prices
What is "neighborhood character"?
Holding Single Family Homes as "sacrosanct" decreases equity and affordablity
Articles from Sightline Institute and Willamette Week about how zoning designed to protect single family homes decreases housing affordability and undermines equity and social justice.
Factors in housing affordablity for Millennials and the Working Class
Increasing housing prices have the biggest effect on those who have not yet purchased a home-- young people who are attempting to reach one of the milestones of adulthood by putting down money for their first place of their own.
New Report on the Benefits of Walkable Neighborhoods
Preventing "Missing Middle" housing reduces affordablity
Lessons from Jane Jacobs
What's Next for South Willamette
On Monday night, City Council voted to withdraw the South Willamette Special Area Zone package, an attempt to reset a process that has produced much controversy and enhanced divisions within the City. The question now is—how do we move forward?