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Growth on Johns Island in Charleston city limits has outpaced infrastructure, straining services and causing traffic issues ...
Planning committee considered applications Wednesday from two landowner groups to expand the city's official urban area to ...
Lexington’s economic development team is aiming to keep the momentum going. In recent weeks, city leaders have helped turn ...
The urban growth boundary is the limit of where a city can build residential homes. Senate Bill 1537, which Gov. Tina Kotek signed on April 18, ...
And I thought, I need to find more of these. So there’s big ones in Happy Valley, there’s big ones in Bethany, and these were areas that were added to the urban growth boundary in the late 90s and ...
An urban growth boundary is a geographical limit to separate areas of urban development from surrounding rural or agricultural land. “Dandridge formally submitted a resolution to the growth ...
Measure C2024 asks voters whether to extend and amend the urban growth boundary, first adopted in 2008. With the initial UGB set to expire on Dec. 31, 2025, voters ...
Urban growth boundaries aim to curb suburban sprawl and protect rural land, but do they always work? In this video, we explore the effectiveness of UGBs, using Portland, Oregon, as a case study.
It came as no surprise that Hamilton Planning Committee voted unanimously to deny applications to expand the city urban ...
The urban growth boundary extension allows for greater residential rezoning but is subject to all planning approvals. Mr Ellis said the changes could provide 10,000 additional homes.
Petaluma voters to decide fate of city’s growth boundary with Measure Y. What is now known as the urban growth boundary began as a means for the city to manage its growth in response to sprawling ...
Petaluma voters to decide fate of city’s growth boundary with Measure Y. City Council members are giving residents a chance to extend the UGB through 2050.