Form-Based Codes Institute at Smart Growth America

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FBCI gathers the best examples of form-based codes from communities across the United States and abroad. The codes represent a variety of community types and applications of form-based standards. Click on the Show Search Options button to search the library by phrase, location, Driehaus Award recipients, and the categories described below.

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Bellevue, KY Form-Based Code

This is a mandatory SmartCode that aims at shaping public space and preserving Bellevue’s historic downtown character. It describes and sets standards for transects, thoroughfares, public frontages, thoroughfare assemblies, public lighting, and civic…more

Birmingham Downtown Overlay District Code

The Downtown Birmingham Overlay District is a mandatory integrated and text-based form-based code. Although there are no diagrams in the adopted code and no illustrations, the code has been part of a highly…more

Birmingham Triangle Overlay District Code

A short and clearly structured mandatory code that intends to respond to the existing character of a 52-acre neighborhood, guide development and compliment the adjacent downtown. The code establishes one attached single family…more

Cincinnati Form-Based Code

**Driehaus Honorable Mention**

The Jury singled out Cincinnati for an honorable mention as a path-breaking code for applying Form Based Codes city-wide, but in an incremental way, as neighborhoods adopt place-specific codes.  This approach enables a…more

Roosevelt Road Form-Based Code

The Roosevelt Road Form-Based Code is collaboration between the three cities of Oak Park, Berwyn, and Cicero in the Chicago metropolitan area. The code establishes a pedestrian-oriented district, a transitional district, and an…more

Heart of Peoria Form Districts

**Driehaus Award Recipient**

The Form-Based Code of the City of Peoria, Illinois, is a national model for creating the form-based portions of a code – targeted to specific areas that offer great opportunities for revitalization – as part…more

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