Zoning

Description: More and more cities across the country are adopting form-based codes. The process of form-based code (including SmartCode) preparation is well-documented, but what happens after official adoption? Experienced form-based code practitioners will discuss the issues of completing a co... read more »

Description: Big cities across the nation are overhauling their zoning codes to encourage good development and design practices. This session will focus on the successful approaches used to obtain broad community and political support for a new zoning code. Panelists will describe their experie... read more »

Description: Making New Urbanist Codes Work Legally; Part Two of the three-part curriculum on new urbanist codes and regulations with a focus on Mixing Design and Law presents ways to translate design into the legal language of regulation at the municipal scale. For an Orientation to Codes that... read more »

Description: From design codes for individual projects to municipally administered citywide zoning, new urbanist coding has evolved. This session looks inside the codes to study the provisions that public agencies are using to implement New Urbanism. Learn how different agencies regulate mixed ... read more »