Laws for Specific Cities

I am a researcher out of Denver and we are doing a project that looks at laws in 30+ cities nationwide. We are still looking for inclusionary zoning laws for the following cities. We simply need to know whether or not the city has an inclusionary zoning law for affordable housing. If the policy language is available, we would like that as well, but isn’t completely necessary. Thanks so much for your help,

Des Moines
Kansas City
Knoxville
Lexington
Memphis
Salt Lake City
Spokane
St. Louis

Carter Ellis
USC - FRESC Fellow
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Permalink Reply by Center for Housing Policy staff on July 27, 2009 at 8:57am

Carter, this 2007 article from the National Association of Home Builders, entitled National Survey of Statutory Authority and Practical Considerations for the Implementation of Inclusionary Zoning Ordinances. provides some insight into policies that have been adopted in some of these localities (at least at the time of publication).

In particular, the survey finds that:

- While there is no expressed authority for inclusionary zoning, Tenn. Code. Ann. § 13-7-20 grants municipalities very broad police powers. As a result, there are several county and municipal ordinances in Tennessee which provide for voluntary programs (Metro Govt. of Nashville and Davidson County, TN Code of Ordinances 17.36.090); Code of Memphis Ordinances, TN Ch. 2-22-8.

- Salt Lake City has an ordinance regarding mitigating the loss of affordable housing. § 18.97.010.

It might be worth following up on some of the references in the report for more info.