#zoning-reform

#zoning-reform

In a year full of abundance discourse, New Rochelle Mayor Yadira Ramos-Herbert is living the abundance agenda. The skyline of her Westchester County city, just 20 miles north of Manhattan, is barely recognizable from a decade ago. New apartment and condo towers have shot up, the city's population is booming, and rents and home prices haven't risen nearly as fast as in other cities in the region and across the US.

"New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind," the author writes. "The most effective innovations happen when residents are treated as partners with authority and vision." Across the U.S. and around the world, everyday people-tenants, workers, organizers-are transforming the future of housing in their cities and catalyzing positive change. New York City, long positioned at the forefront of housing innovation, is falling behind.

Swiftbuild.ai's offering comes as President Donald Trump has urged the nation's largest homebuilders to increase new housing starts. He has also called on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get big homebuilders going, claiming that builders are sitting on two million empty lots. The National Association of Home Builders and several housing economists point to zoning restrictions and permitting delays as major contributors to the national housing shortage.

Advocacy group members and union construction workers cheerfully toted signs that read "Cities are not Museums" and "Affordable Housing Can't Wait." As they see it, the city's failure to build housing at scale for the past decades has contributed to the city's affordability crisis, and the solution is to build at scale - which the zoning plan will enable.

According to the county, the proposed amendments are designed to help farmers and ranchers access undeveloped and actively farmed properties in unincorporated rural areas of Santa Clara County. These properties are being advertised for home development, which in turn has inflated land values. The proposal seeks to mitigate this by updating exclusive agriculture, agricultural ranchlands, hillside and rural residential zones.

Traditional construction methods are often labor-intensive, noisy, and wasteful. In contrast, ICON's 3D printing systems automate wall structure creation, improving efficiency and reducing waste.