Planners Training Service One-Day Workshop

Sustainable Development Through Form-Based Codes

Portland, Oregon • February 19, 2013

Advanced Training for Practicing Planners

Cities and towns across the country are adopting form-based codes. Is yours next? This informative, engaging workshop will give you the tools to get started.

In just one day, you'll learn how form-based zoning helps communities frame their vision and keep their character. You'll see how these development codes can shape the design of structures and streets, nodes and neighborhoods, corridors and cities. And you'll discover how form-based codes can set the course for a more sustainable future. Best of all, you'll get hands-on practice creating key elements of a form-based ordinance.

Crack the code! Find out what form-based zoning can do for your community.

This workshop is co-sponsored by APA Oregon Chapter.


Pricing and registration information

You'll learn about:

  • Using form-based codes for community design and spatial planning
  • Choosing a format and key components for your community's code
  • Creating a strong vision statement and visually compelling plans
  • Setting clear standards for building, street, and landscape designs
  • Developing workable regulations to implement plans effectively
  • Establishing measurable objectives for sustainable development
  • Bringing the benefits of form-based codes to your community

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Schedule

8:30–9:00 a.m.
Check-In

9:00 a.m.–noon
Lecture/Presentation

Noon–1:00 p.m.
Lunch (provided by APA)

1:00–5:00 p.m.
Lecture/Presentation/Planning Exercise

Course Agenda

Download a detailed agenda (pdf)

Certification Maintenance Credits

AICP members earn CM | 7.0 credits for participation in this one-day workshop. Partial credit is not available.

Presenter

Mark L. Gillem, AICP, is principal of the Urban Collaborative, a master planning and urban design practice based in Eugene, Oregon. Currently, his firm is looking into whether converting one of Eugene's arterial roads into a multiway boulevard could create mixed use and infill development in the area. Gillem also teaches architecture and urban design at the University of Oregon.


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