Boston is one step closer to making a major overhaul of its long-maligned development review process after Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 unveiled a draft modernization plan last week. The reforms, set to go ...

This is going to be another wonky post about development and transportation. If you aren’t interested in development, or if you live in a Portland neighborhood that benefits from a lot of capital ...

The challenges the city faces in revamping its “outdated” development review process to better reflect the needs of the community were on full display at a sparsely-attended Boston City Council ...

For Bend’s real estate developers, the biggest hurdle to breaking ground is sometimes the city itself. Their project plans must churn through a gauntlet of reviews by planners, engineers and other ...

The city of Boston will devote $100 million to new housing as it implements other changes to encourage and accelerate new development. Newly announced recommendations to tweak the development planning ...

Each year Royal Oak community development officials now review up to $143 million in residential and commercial development projects in the city. That means from 2,500 to 2,800 building permits have ...

Boulder business owners are celebrating recent code changes that are expected to make the city’s development review process significantly faster and less complicated. The existing review process, ...

The city of Austin's development review process "is terribly inefficient and costly and has made our affordability crisis worse," according to Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. In a new report from the ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – A report makes more than 460 recommendations to Austin’s Planning and Development Review Department after finding building permit backlogs and negative customer feedback. “Our staff is ...