1. Today’s Best Form-Based CodesCNU 17 – Denver

2. FBCI Mission: To advance the knowledge and use of, and develop standards for, Form-Based Codes as a method to achieve a community vision based on time-tested forms of urbanism.

3. Blue Springs Downtown Development Code

4. Downtown Blue Springs, Missouri FBC180 Degree Design Studio

5. Building Typology

6. Building Typology

7. Blue Springs DowntownA 15 year vision Historic Downtown Core Historic Residential Neighborhoods 21st Century Transit Village

8. Blue Springs DowntownTransect Zones

9. Blue Springs DDC: Downtown Review Board

10. Blue Springs DowntownFirst Projects

11. West Evanston Form-Based Code

18. Dallas Form Districts

20. Existing Code Problems Unpredictable Outcomes Districts Do Not Create Urban Places “One Size Fits All” Approach Each Project Involves Negotiation No Districts to Implement Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)

21. The Dallas Code is friendly to developments like this . . .

22. . . . and unfriendly to developments like this

23. New Code Approach forwardDallas! mixed use building blocks provide context for differentiating mixed use standards Urban Mixed Use Multi-Modal Corridor Transit Center Campus District Main Street Urban Neighborhood

24. New Code Approach New Districts Designed as Base Zoning Options Form-Based Codification Additional graphics and improved page layout Includes Minor Streets Standards

25. New Code Approach Hierarchy of Elements: ZONING DISTRICTS: Districts Applied Based on forwardDallas! Policy Guidance BUILDING TYPES: Building Types Allowed in Specified Districts PERMITTED USES: Uses Allowed in Specified Building Types

26. New Code Approach Three New Districts: Urban Mixed Use (UMU-) Low, Medium, High Intensity 3-Stories . . . 8-Stories . . . 12-stories Urban Residential (UR-) Low, Medium, High Intensity Residential Transition (RTN) Low Intensity Only

27. New Code Approach Two Frontages Shopfront Requires single- or multi-story shopfront building with retail on ground floor Accommodates large-format retail, not just “main street” Mixed Use Shopfront Requires multi-story shopfront building with retail on ground floor Vertical mixing of uses (residential or office above retail)

28. Code Format Building Types by District

29. Code Format Building Types

30. Code Format Building Types

31. BuildingTypes

33. Code Format Use Regulations

34. Streets and Streetscape Variety of streetscape plates can be matched to a variety of street types

35. Implementation Enabling Legislation Only– NOT Location-Specific Zoning Changes No Map Changes Each Map Change Considered as a Rezoning The Goal is to Enable Good, Urban Mixed-Use in Specific Target Areas Around Transit Stations (TOD) Along Transit Corridors

37. Is enabling urbanism enough?

38. The importance of a clear vision?

39. Optional codes?