Inspiring the Elected Official: Placemaking Reborn

New urban developments are not legal in most U.S. communities. Rarely are they built “by right.” Their creation requires protracted negotiation and variances to existing codes because most municipal zoning codes are written to support sprawl and not urban, mixed-use, walkable developments. Site-specific exemptions from the codes are both time-consuming and expensive, and fail to address the underlying flaws in the existing code.