Topic: TOC Structure

The City of Detroit, Michigan, City Planning Commission seeks the services of a qualified professional planning consultant to prepare a major update of the City’s Zoning Ordinance. Some overarching goals for the update to the Zoning Ordinance are to: Improve existing regulations, including a review of the City’s off-street parking requirements, number of zoning districts, […]

The Town of Clarksville, IN is seeking a qualified consultant to update a division within the Town’s zoning ordinance, converting the existing regulations into a form-based code. A 2008 CLMU ordinance laid the groundwork for land development regulations, but an update is now required to ensure the vision outlined in the Plan comes to fruition. The […]

How do you create an attractive, accessible, diverse community—a neighborhood that is recognized and celebrated as a great place to live, work and play? Conventional land-use regulations focus on separation of land uses, which results in isolation, suburban sprawl, income- and ethnicity-based segregation and a dearth of attractive public spaces. Car-oriented planning has robbed many […]

“I have two doctors: my left foot and my right foot.” — G. M. Trevelyan Medical breakthroughs such as new vaccines, therapeutic drugs, surgical procedures and early detection screenings have improved treatment of many illness and injuries. But less attention has been paid to finding ways to prevent the development of avoidable health problems and […]

Winooski, a small city in northwestern Vermont that sits at the mouth of the Winooski River, tends to be overshadowed by its far larger and more populous neighbors, Burlington, South Burlington and Colchester. However, the positive effects of the form-based code (FBC) Winooski began implementing in 2015, is helping it to become one of the […]