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How a Georgia City Made Missing Middle Housing Legal

Dec 2, 2025
19 mins

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What happens when a planner stops following broken rules and starts rewriting them instead?

Brad Callender, director of planning and zoning for Monroe, Georgia, legalized the housing people actually need. Duplexes and backyard cottages are now popping up across town. He joins Norm today to explain how he did it as a department of one.

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