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How Airbnb Short-Term Rentals Exacerbate Los Angeles’s Affordable Housing Crisis: Analysis and Policy Recommendations
Harvard Law & Policy Review 10: 229–53, February 2016by: Dayne LeeThis article examines how short-term residential rentals affect the price and supply of affordable housing in Los Angeles and offers recommendations for regulating this use. -
Hej, Not Hej Då: Regulating Airbnb in the New Age of Arizona Vacation Rentals
Arizona Law Review 57: 1163–82, 2015by: Greggary LinesThis article examines different ways of regulating short-term residential rentals in Arizona and argues for the creation of new regulatory approaches to maximize benefits for both municipalities and Airbnb users. -
Arroyo Grande, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 31, 2018The city’s development code addresses short-term residential rentals. -
NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide
2014This guide applies complete street principals to a variety of urban typologies. The NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide is drawn from the experience of its members, as well as best practices from around the world. -
Property Toolkit
April 2019This guide gathers all of the benefits and incentives available to building owners in Seattle for offering programs and facilities for tenants and employees. -
Bicycle Parking: Standards, Guidelines, Recommendations
January 2017This guide covers every aspect of both short and long term bicycle parking in San Francisco, California. -
Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach
An ITE Recommended Practice, 2010This guide reconciles context-sensitive, New Urbanist approaches with contemporary thinking in active transportation. -
Airbnb and the Housing Segment of the Modern “Sharing Economy”: Are Short-Term Rental Restrictions an Unconstitutional Taking?
Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 42(3): 557–76, Spring 2015by: Jamila Jefferson-JonesThis article asks whether regulatory restrictions on short-term residential rentals constitute unconstitutional takings of private property without just compensation. -
Cooperstown, NY, Local Law 1 of 2018
Adopted January 18, 2018This ordinance, passed by the Village in 2018, regulates short term residential rentals, limiting them to owner-occupied properties to protect long-term housing in residential areas and requiring special use permit approval. -
A Conservation Guidebook for Communities along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail
November 2009This guide attempts to balance economic development with environmental conservation of the lands adjacent to the Appalachian Trail. -
Sustainable Streets: Sidewalk Reference Manual
May 2014This guide covers a wide range of topics, including sidewalk benefits, design alternatives, legal liability, financing, maintenance, and regulation. -
Hawaii Pedestrian Toolbox
May 2013This guide is a stand-alone companion to Hawaii’s Statewide Pedestrian Master Plan. It offers design, operations, and education guidance, in the context of planning for Hawaii. -
Pedestrian Safety Impacts of Curb Extensions: A Case Study
July 2005by: Randall JohnsonThis case study from Albany, Oregon reports on pedestrian safety impacts of curb extensions. -
Seattle, WA, Bicycle Master Plan
Adopted April 2014This functional plan focuses on expanding an already robust on- and off-street network of bicycle and pedestrian facilities. -
Brigham City, UT, Pedestrian and Sidewalk Master Plan
October 2006This functional plan includes background and methodology for a sidewalk plan that prioritizes continuous sidewalks and safe crossings. -
Normal, IL, Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan
July 2009This functional plan for Normal, Illinois provides guidelines for site developers stating, for instance, that internal circulation systems should be barrier-free, safe, and secure. -
Oregon Metro, OR, Metro Code
Updated June 2019This functional plan for the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area is embedded in the code for their regional government, Oregon Metro, which also serves as their MPO. -
Street Connectivity Zoning and Subdivision Model Ordinance
March 2009This model ordinance begins with a cogent argument for street connectivity, with specific references to bicycle and pedestrian travel, before offering a model subdivision code. -
Design Standards for Pedestrian-Oriented Districts and Corridors
2008This model code offers design standards for pedestrian-oriented districts. -
Bend, OR, Development Code
Updated June 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation and Marijuana-Related Uses collections. -
Clayton, MO, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2018This regulation belong to the Active Transportation and Wind Energy collections. -
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY, Land Development Code
Updated July 2018This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation, Form-Based Zoning, Outdoor Lighting, and Short-Term Residential Rentals collections. -
Denver, CO, Short-Term Rental Regulations & Licensing
2019This web page establishes an online portal for the city’s management of short-term residential rental licensing. -
Newmarket, NH, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation and Capital Improvements Programming collections. -
High Point, NC, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 2019This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation and Tiny Houses and Micro-Apartments collections. -
Colorado Springs, CO, Short Term Rentals
2019This web page addresses the regulation of short-term residential rentals within the city. -
Evanston, IL, Vacation Rental License
2019This web page provides information on the city’s short-term residential rental regulations. -
Grand Junction, CO, Short-Term Rentals
2019This web page offers information on the city’s regulation of short-term residential rentals based on its 2018 ordinance. -
Kansas City, MO, Short Term Rentals
2019This web page establishes the city’s process to license and regulate short-term residential rentals. -
Fairfax County, VA, Short-Term Lodging in Fairfax County
2019This web page provides information on the county’s regulation of short-term lodging. -
Fitchburg, WI, Code of Ordinances
Updated February 2019The city’s land use code encourages retrofitting subdivisions for street connectivity through its “Smartcode District” regulations. -
Coachella, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2019The city’s zoning code requires that planned unit development project designs include a street network plan that demonstrates both overall street connectivity and pedestrian connectivity -
Sherwood, OR, Code Of Ordinances
Updated June 2019The city’s code of ordinances requires that a broad range of developments include on-site circulation plans, and that they are built in a way that connect to both the immediate network node and proximate activity centers. -
Franklin, TN, Zoning Ordinance
Updated July 2018This city’s zoning code treats alternative modes of travel on the same level as motor vehicles, and requires connectivity of all development. -
Ontario, OR, Planning and Zoning Development Standards
Updated December 2018The city’s planning and zoning development standards include a requirement for an on-site circulation plan that provides for both pedestrians and cyclists -
Woodland, WA, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 2019This city's subdivision code offers incremental bonuses to developers for increasing street and pedestrian connectivity for Planned Unit Residential Developments. -
Milwaukie, OR, Municipal Code
Updated May 2019The city’s zoning code requires that all new development—with the exception of mixed-use development in the CBD and at transit centers, where it will be provided by the city—include bicycle parking according to broad use-specific standards. -
Banning, CA, Code of Ordinances
Updated April 2019This city’s zoning code includes an on-site circulation requirement that discourages pedestrian and automobile conflict zones. -
Novi, MI, Zoning Ordinance
January 2015The city’s zoning ordinance, in order to encourage the use of bicycles as transportation, sets its bicycle parking standards as analogous to off-street parking. -
Ann Arbor, MI, Unified Development Code
July 2018This regulation belongs to the Active Transportation and Marijuana-Related Uses collections. -
Cutler Bay, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated March 2019The town’s land development code includes bicycle storage requirements in their larger Green Standards code, which follows the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. -
Rockville, MD, City Code
Updated May 2019The city’s zoning ordinance sets its long-term bicycle parking requirement within the automobile parking standards, both by use and as a ratio to short term bicycle parking standards. -
Key West, FL, Code of Ordinances
Updated April 2019The city’s land development regulations offer density bonuses to developers who provide bicycle storage areas and showers to their employees -
Matteson, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated June 2018The village’s land use code requires at the time of improvement that subdivisions with lots larger than 20,000 square feet ensure continuity between existing sidewalks to permit safe walking near schools, shopping and other community facilities -
Berkeley County, SC, Code of Ordinances
Updated May 2019The county’s code of ordinances requires sidewalks in new residential and commercial developments on at least one side of local streets and on both sides of major thoroughfares and collectors. -
Berkeley Heights, NJ, Municipal Code
Updated March 2019The township’s land use ordinance requires that every lot shall have pedestrian walkway access to a public sidewalk that prioritizes the safety, control, efficient movement, convenience, and encouragement of pedestrian traffic. -
Bellevue, WI, Municipal Code
Updated January 2019The village’s municipal code requires sidewalk installation in new subdivisions and in accordance with the Pedestrian, Bicycle and Safe Routes to School Plan to serve pedestrian traffic areas. -
Monroe County, IL, Code of Ordinances
Updated December 2017The county’s subdivision code requires sidewalks, built to codified standards, depending on density of dwelling units. -
Lloyd, NY, Town Code
Updated January 2019The town’s zoning code includes the Walkway-Gateway (W-G) District, which orients itself to a pedestrian crossing over the Hudson River. -
Hellertown, PA, Code of Ordinances
Updated January 2019The borough’s zoning code includes an overlay district to complement the off-street trail that intersects with the town.