Webinar recap: Tools and techniques for virtual community engagement
Engagement platform “Imagine Kalamazoo” (Image: City of Kalamazoo) Last week, we hosted “Tools and techniques …
Webinar recap: Tools and techniques for virtual community engagement
Last week, we hosted “Tools and techniques for virtual community engagement,” the second of three webinars hosted by the Form-Based [...]
Progress & preservation in award winning zoning codes
Two very different communities are taking home the 2020 Driehaus Award. [...]
Virtual engagement: A springboard for inclusive community planning
Although “business as usual” is not an option today for most local governments, many continue to move forward with important [...]
Webinar recap: Charrettes go virtual
Last week, we hosted “Charrettes go virtual: Missoula, Montana hosts an online charrette to advance a community vision,” a joint [...]
Like the Oscars, but for zoning
The Richard H. Driehaus Form-Based Code Award is back for its 12th year! If your community has adopted a form-based [...]
Webinar recap: Parking reform for 21st century communities
“Parking reform for 21st century communities: getting more out of public space,” was a joint webinar between the Form-Based Codes [...]
Webinar recap: Using an NCI charrette to create a vision for a form-based code
This November, we hosted “From vision to implementation: Using an NCI charrette to create a vision for a form-based code,” [...]
Don’t miss our next webinar: Using an NCI charrette to create a vision for a form-based code
Wednesday, November 20 at 1 p.m. ET | Register >> Form-based zoning codes are designed to be the regulatory framework [...]
County of Greene, Virginia seeks zoning ordinance audit
The County of Greene is hereby requesting proposals from qualified, multidisciplinary professionals in the fields of urban planning, architecture, traffic and [...]
New zoning makes New Rochelle’s vision a reality
Rendering of New Rochelle’s Division Street under the downtown’s form-based code. (Image: Ideally New Rochelle, used with permission) New Rochelle, [...]
Webinar recap: Zoning for the maker economy
COHAB Space brings together artisans to live, grow, create, showcase, and sell their products in High Point, NC. (Image: COHAB [...]
(Re)coding communities for smart growth
There’s a secret weapon available to communities that want to modernize their zoning codes and help make smarter growth the [...]
Announcing winners of 2019 Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award
Today, the Form-Based Codes Institute at Smart Growth America honors three communities for stepping up to placemaking with the adoption [...]
Form-based codes: A means to equity in a compassionate city
The Columbia Pike form-based code is helping Arlington County, VA preserve or replace an estimated 1,300 affordable housing units that were [...]
A decade of lessons on good zoning
Trinity Boulevard in East Fort Worth is currently a highway but will serve as a town center. Rendering courtesy Gateway [...]