After an 18-month study process, the Boston Planning Department has released an Action Plan proposing strategies to modernize Boston’s development review process.

According to one of my favorite novelists, Colson Whitehead, “No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, 'That used to be Munsey's' or ‘That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge.’” 

Boston is continuing its commitment to planning-led rezoning with the recent release by the Boston Planning and Development Agency ("BPDA") of a draft zoning text amendment and zoning map to implement the PLAN: Downtown planning study adopted in December 2023.

A recent foreboding report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change offers warnings to policy makers and others about dire consequences that have and will continue to arise due to rapid climate change.

Informative note on several recent modifications of the Barcelona General Metropolitan Plan on issues related to some specific real estate sales policies.

In February 2018, Truro County Court handed down its judgment in a claim for damages as a result of common law nuisance caused by the defendant allowing Japanese knotweed to spread from her land into the claimants’.

The law seeks ensuring equal access to urban public goods as well as simplify the inter-district plans amending and establishes a term of 10 years on upgrading an existing MP.

A building being listed is a celebration of that building’s architectural and cultural value. Listed buildings also come under the protection of the English planning system, so that they may be preserved for future generations.

The recent high court case of Eatherley-v-London Borough of Camden and Another at the end of 2016 has made changes about whether planning permission is required for residential basement developments.