During an open house last week, city staff members worked to inform landowners and residents about the new form-based code they plan to use. "There are several reasons we're using form-based code ...

Whereas traditional use-based zoning, also known as Euclidean zoning, focuses on segregating uses, form-based codes focus on a building’s size and placement in relation to the street and other ...

rather than the land use, with the goal of producing a specific type of “place.” “Form-based codes are very direct in asking for what the community wants,” says Geoffrey Ferrell, partner with Ferrell ...

Approved by the city council on October 22nd, the Green Code follows Denver, Cincinnati, Miami, and others, employing form based codes to cultivate a specific aesthetic and program for Buffalo ...

Form-based code provides guidelines for urban-style development, including placing buildings closer to the street and in some cases requiring mixed-use buildings with retail on the first floor and ...

The City of Asheville will hold a community meeting on June 17 at the Grant Southside center to discuss the new form-based code project for the River Arts District. These form-based codes aim to ...

In doing so, Kingston became one of the few cities in the U.S. to entirely replace its existing zoning with a form-based code, which regulates land use based on the physical form and design of ...

"You can't start a form-based code out of thin air," Ferrell said ... to recreate East Street as an urban corridor with mixed-use development and various modes of transportation is expected ...

A further point is made that “while traditional zoning codes focus first on the use of land, FBC’s prioritize the form of buildings based on the belief that form is more important than the use ...

Since the early 1980s, more than 360 communities across the United States have dialed back on Euclidean zoning and have adopted form-based codes, according to the Congress for New Urbanism.

For the past 92 years, the city of Cleveland has seen its share of buildings razed and erected, streets widened and others narrowed, trees planted in lots and parking spaces in others. And for ...