The Center for Zoning Solutions
The Center for Zoning Solutions is SGA’s home for the zoning reform movement. We share research and reports, lead federal advocacy efforts, and support communities across the country to tackle barriers to smart growth and advance policies to encourage mixed-use development, location efficiency, and diverse housing options.
About the Center for Zoning Solutions
The built environment of our cities and towns must allow all people to safely, comfortably, and conveniently access essential destinations, no matter how they choose to get around. Right now, inefficient and exclusionary zoning stands in the way of allowing communities to thrive. The Center for Zoning Solutions (CZS) helps advance zoning codes that your community needs. Our team of experts will support practitioners, advocates, elected officials, and residents to understand how to use smart growth and innovative zoning solutions.
CZS’s vision
The Center for Zoning Solutions empowers people to create livable places, community health, and shared prosperity through zoning solutions, including form-based codes and other innovations.
CZS envisions a country where every community has implemented equitable land use policies that support people to live, work, and thrive, no matter where they call home.
Our principles
- Codes for today’s communities
Replace inefficient and exclusionary zoning regulations to unlock economic, social, and health benefits for all communities. - More housing in the right places
Implement effective policies to encourage mixed-use development and diverse housing options to create thriving, well-connected places. - Create a people-centered movement
Provide residents, advocates, and decision-makers with training, direct support, and accessible tools to advance zoning codes that center community needs.
What are zoning solutions?
We believe everyone deserves a well-designed, accessible community. Zoning solutions are regulatory interventions designed to transform communities. Key solutions include:
- Comprehensive regulations that advance smart growth
- Zoning and housing interventions to advance missing middle housing, infill, and affordable housing typologies
- Regulations, policies, programs, and strategies to facilitate mixed-use and small-scale commercial development
- Strategies to facilitate investment in civic and public benefits