What's Going on With Zoning?

Nolan Gray: The dream of zoning as originally designed was to set up a system where, if a project follows all the rules, it's going to get its permit without a lot of fuss. But what we have in many cities and states today is a system where you actually don't know what can be built on any given lot," he says. "This is just not really an appropriate way to deal with these issues"