Zoning, Permitting & Housing Policy

Hollywood's commission agenda lists a second-reading rezoning of the 166-acre Club at Emerald Hills to Planned Development. Vote outcome unconfirmed.

Keller ISD and Transwestern Development ask Fort Worth to rezone 113.81 acres from community facilities to light industrial, hearing Oct. 14.

The request would replace a 54-foot community retail limit with towers of up to 240 feet, according to press reports.

Pemmil Land Holdings paid $5.3M for Coney Island lots in 2021 and now seeks a rezoning for 414 affordable units in an 18-story and a 12-story building.

Norworth Holdings borrowed $38.1M on a Walworth Street lot it bought for $11M in June, inside a pending 391-unit Park Avenue rezoning in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Dallas plan commission hears a proposed WMU-5 district at 341 S. Fleming Ave and a PD 931 expansion at 5200 Bryan St, held 35 days, on Oct. 8, 2026.

TF Cornerstone's 2 Noble Street waterfront certification, 1,060 homes in Greenpoint, logged a new land-use filing milestone on Sept. 23. It remains a proposal.

The deed records two lots, 54,580 square feet of land, from a rezoned industrial assemblage in Park Slope.

The ULURP application would replace a one-to-two story shopping center with a mixed-use building and 62,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail.

City Planning's project page now lists 381 units, up from the 245 still shown in the open-data mirror.

Commissioner Maria Sachs says she will propose a pause on new housing in the 22,000-acre Ag Reserve in October. No text or date has been filed.

The application is pending in public review. Nothing is approved.

Compson Associates plans 157 condos on two office-zoned lots in Boca's Park at Broken Sound, racing a 2,500-unit residential cap set in 2012.

Coral Gables commissioners took up UM's 30-year development agreement on second reading: a hospital of up to 100 beds, 17,500 students and a 1.0 FAR.

Palm Beach County Commissioner Maria Sachs wants a pause on new housing in the 22,000-acre Agricultural Reserve, with land-use limits due in October.

Council Speaker Julie Menin and Majority Whip Kamillah Hanks proposed a vision plan and $38 million in funding for Staten Island's North Shore.

Beach 87th Street Associates LLC filed to rezone a Rockaway Beach lot from R4-1 to R7A for a 10-story, 70-unit building with 18 income-restricted apartments.

Miami Beach's land use committee voted 2-1 to advance Ken Griffin's helipad plan over objections from eight condo towers near his Terminal Island marina.

Palm Beach County commissioners gave final, unanimous approval to a one-year freeze on new large-scale data center filings, effective through Sept. 24, 2027.

West Palm Beach's Planning Board unanimously advanced a Downtown Master Plan that strips 25-story towers from Flagler Drive, capping most of it at 5 stories.

The annexation route delivered Kolter more single-family homes on the same acreage than Palm Beach County's own 2024 entitlement allowed.

A private developer is asking South Miami to give up a park to build on the city's own land.

A filing at 1501 Collins Avenue pairs restoration of the 1939 Bancroft Hotel with 124 new residences, half of them workforce housing.

The filing would put the Alton Road site within two feet of the 559-foot Blue and Green Diamond towers, Miami Beach's tallest since 2000.

The city's own ordinance text, not the meeting summary, spells out what a hotel owner on Hollywood Beach can now buy and what it costs.

All 112 studios are capped at 120% of area median income under Florida's Live Local Act, among the first such projects in Miami-Dade to reach construction.

The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections' own tally shows organized opposition beating a major developer at the ballot box, twice, in one night.

The county can no longer block this site. The Army Corps clock still can.

Naya USA is seeking multifamily zoning for its 6-acre Cypress Creek office site, which could yield up to 300 apartments.

MBA Development Partners wants three towers up to 15 stories and 700,000 sf in Deerfield Beach, the second big mixed-use filing there in two weeks.

Allied Partners wants a 38-story, 480-foot tower at the Savoy Hotel site in South of Fifth, using the Live Local Act to override height limits.

North Miami's Planning Commission took up Aurevia, a 16-story, 225-unit tower on NE 123rd Street, at a September 10 special meeting. Est. $77.4M build.

An Aurora, Ohio developer is using Florida's Live Local Act to put a 260-unit tower on Allapattah land zoned for light industrial use.

HTG is asking Hollywood for a $1.95M loan to acquire a Dixie Highway site for Mosaic, an 84-unit Live Local Act project, ahead of a Sept. 14 vote.

Miami Beach commissioners ordered a feasibility review of the Five Park pedestrian bridge after Terra and GFO Investments missed the deadline set at approval.

Councilmember Steven Herzberg's memo asks staff to close a gap in the Land Development Code before an application forces the issue, with a 90- to 120-day path to a first ordinance hearing.

Miami Lakes' Town Council takes up an item Tuesday to draft an ordinance banning data centers, joining a national siting backlash reaching Miami-Dade.

Jeff Greene's first Live Local Act filing seeks 25 stories on a West Palm Beach site capped at 10, with 148 workforce units and a mass-timber frame.

Coral Springs rezoned 58.31 acres of its CRA to a single mixed-use code, resetting entitlements for every parcel along Sample Road and University Drive.

White Rose Partners pulled its $500M Prosper, Texas data center hours before a council vote, after a 7-0 denial recommendation.

Preserve the West Grove and 18 residents sued Miami-Dade Circuit Court over the city's approval of the county's $59M Playhouse redevelopment.

City staff recommend rezoning Myers Auto Group's West Palm Beach Jaguar dealership site into the Downtown Master Plan, unlocking far more square footage.

Bofsa Properties sued Lake Park in federal court, alleging its attorney used code violations to force a sale of its affordable housing site.

Broward's PCT 26-9 amendment removes the boundary restricting where Uptown Fort Lauderdale's 4,239 approved units can be built across 361.7 acres.

Emre Tuna Investment LLC's Doral rezoning from Industrial to Corridor Commercial faces a final vote Sept. 9, unlocking retail use on a 1.5-acre corner.

Margate approved zoning for Rosemurgy Properties' Lakes of Carolina, up to 540 townhomes and 24,800 sf of retail on the closed Carolina Golf Club site.

Hollywood's Planning and Development Board decides four items Tuesday: a 394-unit tower, a 30-unit site plan, a Live Local height call and a beach rezoning.

No planning board hearing, no commission vote. The Live Local Act lets a 31.5-acre mall redevelopment move on a staff review clock instead.

Panelists at a Miami conference said the program's real bottleneck moved from city hall to the agency desk.

Three multifamily applications sit on the same September 8 Hollywood board agenda, and the biggest one locks in the building envelope for a project the City Commission already approved in principle.

Coverage of the milestone put a $226M price on the whole project. Our own permit wire says that figure covers one of the two towers, not both.

Brookfield-backed Compass pulled out in April, Blackstone's QTS dropped its final appeal in July, closing out the country's largest data center siting failure.

Miami-Dade commissioners voted 9-3 to approve Kelly Tractor's west Dade HQ outside the UDB, clearing the supermajority to override Levine Cava's veto.

Hollywood's Planning Board takes up height, setbacks and site coverage for Related Group's beachfront Live Local project on September 8.

City planning staff project 19,500 new residents from the rezoning, but say added density alone, not a requirement, is what "may facilitate" affordable units.

The Hollywood-based landlord bought the half-vacant Winn-Dixie-anchored center for $18.85 million and is now seeking a rezoning, plat and site plan approval to redevelop it.

No construction lender, no outside investor. Just a fourth-generation family balance sheet and a triangular 0.7-acre lot near Jackson Memorial.

The financing covers phase one of a 196-unit Live Local Act project in the Cypress Creek submarket, backed by a state SAIL loan and a Broward County housing bond.

The loan follows Integra's $73 million purchase of the Huizenga family's West Palm Beach marina last month and carries entitlements for four condo towers.

The half-acre site is zoned QBD-10, a 10-story, 155-foot cap. Rybak's designs ask the state's density law to more than double it.

The site last cleared City Hall for a 320-unit, hotel-inclusive tower. Northlink's new site plan strips the hotel and adds more than 200 apartments.

The meals-only model needs no state healthcare license, and the Live Local Act path skips a rezoning fight most senior projects face.

Three Broward hearings this week move real money and real timelines, not consent-agenda filler.

The 166-acre golf course conversion clears its next procedural gate as a quasi-judicial time-certain item.

Attorney David Winker says he found roughly 14 speakers who misstated their addresses under oath. The commission voted anyway and referred the matter to police.

Miami-Dade deferred Kelly Tractor's UDB headquarters vote a sixth time on July 21, pushing the item to a September 1 second reading, per county records.

The scaled-back condo plan keeps the tenanted building along Wilton Drive standing while replacing the parcel's underused east-side structure.

Four Kendall rezonings claim a Kendall Drive transit-corridor density bonus for a rapid-transit project FDOT put on hold in 2025 with no construction timeline.

The developer is still unnamed. The land, and the math that unlocks it, are not.

Cypress Real Estate Advisors' NP-Devland unit is suing North Palm Beach over 37 added conditions on its Village Place master plan, a year on with no ruling.

Power was never the fight here. Zoning was.

The ask prices out what a 100-120% AMI set-aside is worth in Broward, a number every sponsor there now has a comp for.

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 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.

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.