Zoning, Permitting & Housing Policy

The largest industrial entitlement now moving through Miami-Dade would fill a rock pit lake for 3.83 million square feet of warehouse space.

Palmetto Bay's vice mayor plans to introduce a village-wide data center ban, the third South Florida jurisdiction to move against the use since July.

A 3.08-acre industrial site on South Dixie Highway would become 394 apartments, with staff recommending approval of the design, site plan and a corner setback variance.

The county's staff report spells out the one line that decides who gets in before the freeze: a completed application, not a filed one.

A unanimous no vote and a moratorium lawsuit in Georgia are the same playbook Palm Beach County developers have run into twice this year.

Coral Gables planners backed a FAR increase, hospital use and a wider boundary for UM's campus, teeing up a City Commission first reading.

A 40% unit cut hasn't bought Lennar community peace at the West Boca golf course conversion, and Palm Beach County says a commission vote is still years off.

A grocery store promised to Bronzeville since 2018 cleared its first real city hurdle, six years and multiple false starts later.

Neither action is a building ban, but both add real, dated friction to any entitlement timeline in the city's core.

The Miami-based developer is acquiring a 1.5-acre South Dixie Highway site that already allows the density it needs, skipping the state's affordable-housing override.

City staff have already recommended approval with conditions on all four ordinances the project needs. The commission's own record shows the final vote is set for August 25, not this week.

Palm Beach County passed Florida's first data center moratorium in July; Manatee, Lakeland, Flagler and Hernando have followed since June.

A single-family builder just got a Broward city to sign off on high-rise rentals, and that is the density test other sponsors will point to next.

A divided vote on forgone tax revenue is now the template other South Florida hotel developers will point to when they ask a city to waive the same thing.

Broward County filed a land use amendment for 154 acres around the Panthers' Sunrise arena, moving before any private RFP goes out.

Iron Mountain's 16MW Westview data center used a zoning code loophole to skip a public rezoning hearing, and Metrobloks is doing the same nearby.

Four Kendall rezonings near Baptist Hospital, 261 units total, are named and mapped, with two controlled by the same ownership group.

The largest AI spender just put a price on local consent, and every smaller developer now has to match it or explain why not.

Richard Goldenberg's Beach Causeway LLC filed plans for a 765-unit Live Local project in Fort Lauderdale, with 306 units reserved as affordable.

Neighbors near Baptist Health's Kendall campus filed 37 objections against two density-bonus apartment rezonings totaling 146 units.

CREI Holdings is advancing an eight-story, 250-unit fourth phase of its Li'l Abner housing initiative at 11033 NW 2nd Terrace under the Live Local Act.

Turnberry Isle condo owners sue Jeffrey Soffer's YCM and Aventura, alleging a 2023 ordinance redefined site size to dodge a required owner vote.

The agenda item is captioned a recommendation, not a final rezoning. Here is what actually moved and what has to happen next.

Related Group's 27-story Hollywood Beach tower nears final approval under the Live Local Act on city-owned land, amid organized resident opposition.

Two 36-story towers and a 19-story third tower would use the state law's height and zoning override, with 40% of units set aside as workforce housing.

Getting to yes on a hyperscale site in this state is the exception. Developers should be pricing that scarcity, not the protest noise.

Three confirmed South Florida entitlement items over five weeks: a Hollywood zoning rewrite, Delray Beach code changes, and a Broward procurement deadline.

Willow Bridge paid $24.7 million for a fully entitled 259-unit Fort Lauderdale site near the Galleria Mall, skipping the entitlement fight Procacci already won.

Expedited Bill 19-26 and a companion zoning measure pause data center permitting countywide, with no carve-out for projects already in review.

A sitting land-use chair now produces brokerage business for a firm pushing up Florida's east coast, a referral channel and a disclosure question at once.

An aging medical office building near Aventura becomes the test case for how far Live Local's density override can push an infill office site.

With the General Assembly out of session, the ask for a Virginia data center pause has moved from a bill to the governor's desk.

A companion site plan for eight sites, 284 units and a rebuilt clubhouse goes to the same board the same night, with staff recommending approval of both.

Three South Florida boards, four filings, one calendar for developers who need to know what changes and when.

Miami-Dade's own parcel record puts the full folio at 165.6 acres, and it already carries 21 county buildings the trade coverage never mentioned.

The planning board's 4-3 denial survives a split commission, turning a site plan fight into litigation.

A life-company insurer underwrote a density-bonus workforce tower at scale, giving Broward developers a lender comp to point to.

Siting politics, not power, just killed a campus in the country's densest data-center submarket.

Two master permits, one folio, two general contractors. The tightest vertical spend per acre in Miami-Dade right now.

An 81-key extended-stay box west of the turnpike. The tempting read is data-center labor housing. The record says otherwise.

The siting standards were adopted before the tenant was named, and the land traded twice on the way there.

The staff report concedes the mall's main entrance closes. The product answer is to turn the pad inside out and give it its own front door.

Two outlets covered the rendering. Neither named the owner. The folio does, and it also shows the $1.2 billion sale never happened.

A big-box anchor rejected 4-3 by a planning board is now a test of who really controls a master-planned site in Broward.

Five more apartments against nine fewer spaces, on land the developer will never have to buy.

Broward's supply-tight beachfront could get its density ceiling lifted. Height stays, but the floor-area cap that limits scale would go.

A hard pause hits seven waterfront parcels through January. For anyone mid-entitlement, the clock just stopped.

The horse capital's expansion is a land-use story: 90 acres came out of a protected preserve to make it happen.

About $7,100 in city fees on a typical new house, before the county even bills you.

The 16 percent unit bump is not ambition. It is how you qualify.

The family that built West Palm's superyacht marina just sold it to its own development partner. The entitlement is 2.6M sq ft.

The golf course survives. The perimeter does not. We read the staff report before the August 4 hearing.

The entitlement constraint in Hollywood is no longer height or parking. It is whether any units are left to allocate.

Out to Bid: the public-land infill pipeline, with the covenants a small builder actually has to sign.

Power was the gating factor. Local politics is now the second one, and it is not evenly distributed.

How long your Delray approval actually lives, and how that compares to four neighbors.

The bonus is capped at 1,000 units citywide, allocated first-come first-served, and only for projects holding a full building permit by September 1, 2033.

Tiered FAR, transferable base density and 0.5 parking spaces per unit reset the math on 130 acres, but three of the four ordinances are only on first reading.

This is not a denial of a project. It is a category-level exclusion drafted before anyone applies.

Sites fronting the Underline, Ludlam Trail or the Miami River Greenway could no longer write a check for the first half of their bonus. A separate section makes trail construction mandatory.

Anyone holding a Lincoln Road West site underwritten on the rooftop hotel program is watching the entitlement itself go up for repeal. First reading is Wednesday.

A NYSE-listed auto retailer is going vertical on eight acres it bought for $8.08M in 2022, and it listed itself as contractor.

One meeting, one zoning district, two directions: MF32 frozen on the waterfront, MF32 granted inland on Haverhill.

The by-right path unlocks existing non-conforming small lots that already met the dimensions on May 1, 2026. The sewer connection decides which of them pencil.

Duty is assessed on the date of entry, not the sailing date. That makes the gap after July 24 a customs scheduling question, not a procurement strategy.

Moratoriums are a zoning risk. Attaching labor conditions to the utility rate is a different failure mode: the project still gets approved, it just stops penciling.

The permit that had been under review since December 2023 is now issued. Brickell Key's biggest bet can go vertical.

The city never calls it a moratorium. It is a Zoning in Progress declaration, and its footprint is far narrower than the coverage suggests.

Two towers, a county library branch, and 750 new homes on a public housing site in West Coconut Grove.

A 2024 plan filing has quietly converted into a permitted building. The developer is also the general contractor.

The largest industrial proposal on Long Island in years, and it hangs on a zoning change and a tax package.

The city owns the parcel, it has never been built on, and the permit matches the published program of its long-planned arts center.

Seven 34-story towers on 12 acres, cleared largely by state preemption of local zoning. This is the scale Live Local now enables.

A billionaire's industrial-to-residential conversion clears entitlement, over the city's preference for a jobs center.

A 2.2M-sq-ft affordable senior play tests how far ED1's by-right path can scale in a single Warner Center project.

A pricing signal aimed straight at where and how Florida developers get to fill wetlands.

One Stockyards project starts while the marquee $1B phase sits stuck, a lesson in de-risking the entitlement you actually control.

A live case study in what it now takes to get a big San Francisco waterfront project across the financing line.

The entitlement changed during escrow, and the unit count nearly doubled before the deal even closed.

The entitlement you are sitting on may no longer be yours to sit on.

In one of the country's hottest condo submarkets, the entitlement clock just became the deal.

A marquee waterfront site, a $100M bet, and an entitlement path that runs through voters and wetlands regulators.

The binding constraint on AI infrastructure is shifting from power to the county dais.

Now that the ban is real, the question is how capital routes around it, and the widest lane points straight at build-to-rent.

The most sweeping federal housing law since 1990 became law automatically after Trump declined to sign or veto it.

A housing-policy week from Washington to the states, a first sign of data-center cooling, and a capital market that would not sit still. The week that was in US development.

Owners of apartment buildings in unincorporated LA County would have to notify affordable-housing buyers before selling, with a right of first refusal on the table.

A Florida county's move to charge the maximum allowed impact fees collides with the state's marquee affordable-housing law.

As data center load strains the grid, a growing bloc of states is writing rules to ensure hyperscalers, not households, foot the bill.

The recommendation clears one hurdle for a condo-hotel that would add height and floor area to a Collins Avenue landmark closed since 2017.

The Delivery Protection Act has chilled construction even while parked in committee, landlords say.

Cheap public capital, some at 0% interest, aims to move 1,103 affordable units through a $451M development pipeline.

A Broward lawsuit tests how far Florida's Live Local Act can override local land-use rules on public land.

The 5.8-acre uptown site, entitled for more than 550 apartments, changed hands twice in two months after Peachtree Group's foreclosure filing.