INCLUSION, EQUITY and ACCESSIBILITY

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“Zoning and building regulations are a century old,’ Florida said, noting a major overhaul to promote equity and inclusion is long overdue. 

“(These were) very necessary during factories, when housing needed to be separated from a polluting environment.  

But that set of codes are no longer adequate to deal with a clustered, knowledge-based environment.”

For more than half a century, zoning codes have been used to exclude density and affordable housing from the suburbs, Florida said. 

He encourages public-private partnerships to quash antiquated, exclusionary codes and to replace them with more dense, more affordable housing.