Republican legislators take aim at local zoning rules to address Wisconsin’s housing shortage


Republican legislators take aim at local zoning rules to address Wisconsin’s housing shortage


This week, Stevens Point residents attended a city council meeting to fight against a neighbor’s efforts to build an extension to their garage so their ailing in-laws have a place to move in.

Earlier this year, Madison residents mounted a campaign against the city’s efforts to change zoning rules to allow higher density apartments near future stops on the soon-to-be-built Bus Rapid Transit line. Another effort in Madison would  stop a developer’s proposal for a new apartment complex, by attempting to get a historical landmark designation for a former credit union building because former President Harry Truman dedicated the structure in 1950....
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Ken Notes: NIMBY, preservation, margins, holding costs, segregation, transit, infrastructure, diversity, politics, and so much more suggest this is NOT a simple problem...

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