REZONING FOR ABUNDANCE + A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
This week we will be at the Virginia Governor’s Housing Conference in Roanoke, Virginia. If you will be attending, we hope that you will be attending the the opening plenary session on that we are hosting, Rezoning for Abundance with Eric Kronberg. You’ll hear all about incremental development and how communities can rezone for more abundant housing opportunities.
The zoning whispering has arrived…
Eric Kronberg is a zoning whisperer. He specializes in balancing and blending the often competing needs of urban design, architecture, and development in a potent cocktail for better places. He specializes in breaking down and demystifying regulations to find ways to make great projects possible while helping others navigate the redevelopment maze. He uses his skills for the force of good as a principal at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects (KUA), leading the firm’s skilled practitioners to help our development partners create better places for all.
His decade teaching for the Incremental Development Alliance motivated him to co-found Inc Codes, an incremental code reform company helping mid-sized cities take the next step towards better places. All this work is directed towards making flourishing neighborhoods — places that are vibrant, lasting, AND inclusive. He recently joined the board of the Seaside Institute to help the leading think tank for the New Urbanism strategically focus on how to integrate attainable housing into our great, walkable places.
We will be making a special announcement about our work in 2026, so stay in those seats after Eric’s presentation or watch your inboxes!
Staying on theme with zoning…
Sara Bronin and the key to the city
Our collaborator on the Virginia Zoning Atlas, Sara Bronin, will also be the keynote speaker at the conference on Wednesday afternoon, where she will highlight her recent book and the work on the Virginia Zoning Atlas.
Sara is a nationally recognized Mexican-American architect, attorney, professor, and policymaker whose interdisciplinary work explores how law and policy can foster more equitable, sustainable, well-designed, and connected communities.
She is the author of Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World (W.W. Norton) and the founder/director of the National Zoning Atlas, a groundbreaking initiative to digitize and democratize zoning information across the United States.
Bronin is the Freda H. Alverson Professor of Law at The George Washington University Law School and formerly a tenured professor at Cornell University. She has co-authored four books and two treatises, including the land use volume of the Restatement (Fourth) of Property, which will shape judicial decisions for decades. Her scholarship spans dozens of law review articles and has influenced both academic and policy circles.
Bronin has led transformative zoning reform efforts as chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission in Hartford, Connecticut, where she spearheaded a nationally recognized zoning overhaul and the city’s first climate action plan. She founded DesegregateCT, a grassroots coalition that successfully advanced major statewide zoning reforms.
From 2023-2024, Bronin served as the 12th Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation—the first person of color to hold the role. She prioritized housing, climate change, and Indigenous concerns in federal preservation policy. She also served as a Trustee of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Licensed in architecture and law, Bronin has advised governments, institutions, and law firms on complex land use and preservation matters. Her award-winning rehabilitation of a historic 1865 brownstone reflects her commitment to thoughtful design and heritage conservation.
She holds degrees from Yale Law School (J.D.), the University of Oxford (M.Sc., Rhodes Scholar), and the University of Texas (B.Architecture and B.A. in Plan II). She clerked for then-Judge Sonia Sotomayor and has received numerous honors, including the Heinz Award and an honorary degree from Trinity College.