In recent years, several Lehigh Valley municipalities have enacted noise ordinances. But excessive noise isn’t just a Valley concern. The Rutgers Noise Center at the State University of New Jersey at ...

The City of Santa Cruz, just as many other cities in the state, is developing objective standards for the review of multifamily housing and mixed-use development applications. This effort is largely ...

The Del Mar City Council introduced a set of objective design standards Aug. 26 that the city can apply to any new development that, based on new state laws, would not have to go through the typical ...

Objective design standards were the main topic of debate for the Davis Planning Commission on Wednesday night. On Jan. 10, the Planning Commission held the first public hearing regarding the proposed ...

Napa’s planning commission is beginning to develop objective design standards, a set of building requirements municipalities need to use to approve residential development projects that are supposed ...

You can use International Organization for Standardization guidelines to improve the management of your business or benchmark your company's performance against other businesses around the world. The ...

The next time you drive under a freeway overpass and find yourself stopped in traffic with trucks rumbling over the road above you, remember this: feelings don’t keep bridges from falling down. Math ...