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The Small Development Counts Network regularly convenes public, participatory sessions intended to help champions of small-scale development implement in their places.  

Working Conversations

are intended to get work done rather than just talk about work. In that spirit, we invite participants to contribute to a robust dialogue, share your best perspectives, and identify together the next smallest step you can take toward implementation in your place.  

Action Forums (using Open Space Technology)

are broader gatherings powered by co-conveners’ invitations around a critical question and the most important issues and opportunities it raises for what participants care about and are willing to do about them.

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Citywide

In Portland they’ve made legal again the small-scale housing that originally built that city (and every city in the US) https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/portland-changes-zoning-code-to-allow-duplexes-triplexes-fourplexes-in-areas-previously-reserved-for-single-family-homes.html

ACUs for affordable commercial

ACUs (accessory commercial spaces) offer affordable commercial spaces close to business owner’s and customer’s homes contributing to neighborhood vibrancy and walkability. The popularization of these unit types led to Portland, Oregon including them as an accepted use in the recent Historic Resources Code Project as a way to extend the financial life of a historic property. 

Read More at Fast Company.