Clarion Associates recently kicked off a rewrite of the Howard County, MD, development regulations, which have not undergone significant updates since the 1970s. The nearly three-year process will clarify, consolidate and revise regulations in an effort to modernize the county’s nearly 500-page zoning regulations and other manuals and documents that guide land use and development.

Out here in the West they say “water is Gold.” That’s because new development cannot happen without it, and because all the cheap supplies of water were bought long ago.  While there is a thriving private market in water rights, reliable water supplies are very expensive – and they get more expensive each year.  That

On October 26, Clarion Director Don Elliott was a keynote lunch speaker at the Utah Land Use Institute annual conference in Sandy Utah. Don’s presentation on Reinventing Zoning for the 21st Century began with a review of the long, strange journey of zoning since 1916 – beginning with pure versions of Euclidean zoning and then

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