Zoning Practice
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Small Town Zoning Fixes
November 2026
This issue of Zoning Practice explores six incremental zoning reforms that small towns and rural communities can implement to widen the path to greater housing production and choice, while at the same time improving the jurisdiction's fiscal health. These are all code patches: they do not require a complete zoning code rewrite, something that most small towns have neither the political will, professional capacity, nor financial wherewithal to undertake.
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Share Your Expertise
Zoning Practice welcomes proposals from outside contributors
We are especially eager to hear from potential authors with expertise on the following topics:
- Using zoning to advance equity, sustainability, and resilience objectives
- Recent trends in small-town and rural area zoning
- The effects of demographic or technological change on land use demand