EVERETT — If you own land just outside downtown, new rules being considered by the Everett City Council could affect how your property can be developed. On the flip side, the new rules could protect ...

SEQUIM — Neither the architect nor the developer wants to talk much about Rock Plaza. But Dennis Lefevre, Sequim’s planning director, has to talk about it. At a recent city Planning Commission meeting ...

Dacula’s Mayor and City Council recently signed a resolution opposing House Bill 302 and Senate Bill 172, Preemption to Local Building Design Standards, and House Bill 937, Residential Building ...

On its surface, the effort to create new design standards for the 100 block of Minturn might seem to be an unexciting affair. Countless hours have been spent over the course of the last year ...

FARMINGTON -- The Farmington Planning Commission discussed design standards for multifamily housing in MF-1 and MF-2 residential zones during its Sept. 26 meeting at City Hall. Presently the city has ...

Two of Amherst’s five-story mixed-use buildings — 11 East Pleasant at bottom and 1 East Pleasant — are seen in this aerial view looking south up North Pleasant Street looking toward the town cen.

The city of Kalispell is taking a step back in time as city representatives get to work on the first draft of a set of design standards for historical buildings in the downtown area. In February, the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- Businesses with large windows, sufficient lighting, access control and generally clean exteriors are less likely to be hit by crime because of an increase in the perceived ...

Senior Associate Tony Perez of Berkeley-based Opticos Design Inc., which was hired to prepare the standards, says creating objective design standards for Santa Barbara was easy because of all the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denver’s downtown Golden Triangle has new zoning and building design standards intended to diversify the area’s real estate profile and increase the amount ...