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DISCOVERY LEADERSHIP MASTERCLASS SERIES with Frank Adu ANIM: Empowering the elephant to dance – The Business & Financial Times

…the pathway for organisational change and leadership  Imagine an elephant running wild in a dense forest, with its rider desperately trying to maintain control with the path ahead obviously unclear, possibly leading to a dead-end, how can the rider steer the elephant safely to a new promising land? Again, imagine as a company you have […]

Editorial: If the ban on occupancy limits is combined with legalized ADUs density will come to single-family neighborhoods – The Denver Post

Gov. Jared Polis just signed legislation to ban almost all occupancy limits, and coming rapidly toward his desk is a bill to allow ADUs on almost every single-family lot in big Colorado cities. The occupancy ban still allows cities and counties to enforce fire codes and to regulate unhealthy and unsanitary conditions, but for the […]

BUSINESS QUARTERLY – Towns use amendments to increase housing – Monadnock Ledger Transcript

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript – BUSINESS QUARTERLY – Towns use amendments to increase housing The current Peterborough zoning map.  COURTESY IMAGE TOWN OF PETERBOROUGH Peterborough voters will decide on several proposed zoning amendments at the ballot on May 15, including rezoning the existing Family District to General Residence. Currently, more than half the lots in the Family District are nonconforming, […]

Zoning Reform Is Helping This City Avoid the Housing Crisis – Strong Towns

In addition to minimizing costs and headaches for homeowners, releasing these designs has freed up valuable time for city staff. “We’ve actually been able to approve ADUs in less than a day,” Davis described. “It’s a matter of taking a site plan and a pre-approved plan set and saying, ‘go for it: permit issued.’” Because the plans meet all the standards […]