River Falls City Council approves ordinances, zoning amendments and annexations for housing. Why?

In the fall of 2017, the city of River Falls hired Maxfield Research and Consulting to complete a comprehensive housing needs analysis.

The data included demographics, employment, housing characteristics and affordability, and for sale, rental, senior, and special needs markets. The study projects out to 2030. However, the City updated the housing needs analysis in 2022 to better understand the further changes in the housing market.

“I think we thought it was a good idea for us to get some, some specific market data to try to understand what we could do, or at least what was happening in the market. Maybe some projections were trying to understand what things might be occurring going forward in the future,” said Scot Simpson, the City Administrator...   ...more

Leonardo Silva Architecture Notes: Great zoning reforms were made that will help solve housing issues highlighted in their housing study.