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Form-Based Coding: Building Form and Street Space
Where the 20th Century Euclidian-Zoning model hyper-controls Land USE -- and only indirectly deals with the FORM of buildings and streets (with little success) -- Form-Based Coding deals directly with building FORM and sets only broad parameters for USE.
Careful, understandable controls on building FORM, broad parameters on building USE to shape clear Public Space (good Streets and Squares).
Euclidian-Zoning is rooted in the problems of the Industrial Revolution (late 18th, early 19th, Century!) and fundamentally about keeping things apart.
Towns and Cities are healthy to the degree that they properly integrate the various aspects of daily life.
This is the 21st, not the 19th Century -- we need to deal with how things work together.
New Ordinances/Projects:
Columbia Pike Corridor, Arlington County, Virginia (D.C. Metropolitan Area)
Columbia Pike Revitalization Initiative Form-Based Codes and Corridor Masterplan to
replace existing County Zoning Ordinance system.
with Dover Kohl & Partners, VOA Associates, and Steve Price.
Ferrell Madden Associates provided the Form-Based Codes for the redevelopment of this major Urban Corridor.
Computer Image by Steve Price Urban Advantage
Pleasant Hill BART Station Property Redevelopment Form-Based Codes.
Redevelopment Agency, Contra Costa County California
Computer Image by Steve Price Urban Advantage
Geoffrey Ferrell Associates provided the Form-Based Codes for the redevelopment of the Pleasant Hill Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Station Property.
(Masterplan by Pleasant Hill Citizens with Lennertz Coyle and Associates in 2000. )
Bird's Eye View LCA Architects/Laurence Qamar
Link to Contra Costa County Web Site: Main Coding Document
Link to Contra Costa County Web Site: Coding Document - Architectural Standards
Link to Contra Costa County Web Site: Coding Document - Regulating Plan
Woodford County, Kentucky Design For Tomorrow Masterplan and New Codes to replace existing County Zoning Ordinance system.
with Dover Kohl and Partners
The Woodford County Task Force "Design for Tomorrow" program, has helped crystallize a vision of Woodford County. In May 2000, citizens participated in a historic process to plan for the county's future. That plan, Preserving Town & Country in the Woodford County Bluegrass, has been adopted in the County Comprehensive Plan and was selected for a recent Kentucky Innovations Award. Currently, Geoffrey Ferrell Associates is working with County Staff to finalize a Code that will formally regulate the design of new development and redevelopment in Woodford County
1991-2 Principal Duany Plater-Zyberk (DPZ) Staff for
Metropolitan Dade County Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) Ordinance,
adopted April 2, 1992.
