August 2006

Streamlining the Approval Process

By Michael H. Zischke and Sarah E. Owsowitz

Despite all the advocacy of infill development as a way to achieve smart growth and reduce sprawl, there continue to be significant obstacles to infill development. Significantly, it is still easy for neighbors (and for officials) to stop or dramatically delay projects by raising claims such as impacts on traffic, shadows and views. Often, these impact claims relate to effects created as much by other projects as by the proposed new infill development, yet they are still asserted to stop new residential projects.

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