When I went to undergraduate school as a city planner, I was taught that zoning was as important to planners as being trained in the profession. Today, that role may be quite different as housing has become difficult to find, especially affordable housing. In some locations, apparently growing, the traditional zoning approach is being rewritten or suggested as a tool that needs more attention.

The tradition of single-family housing being located in large swaths of land is no longer necessarily being used by local governments, and steps are being taken to change zoning traditions and make it more palatable in certain locations across the nation.

In a recent edition of “Planning,” the magazine of the American Planning Association, Anchorage, Alaska, was examined as one of the locations tha

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