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Protecting Historically Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Neighborhoods and Business Districts
Zoning Practice — August 2023Establishing protective measures for historically disadvantaged and vulnerable neighborhoods and business districts requires a proactive, community-based approach. This issue of Zoning Practice outlines clear steps those who write, administer, and enforce zoning regulations can take to proactively protect these neighborhoods and business districts. -
Opening the Door to Unconventional Homes
Zoning Practice — March 2025This issue of Zoning Practice explores the rise of unconventional housing types, such as barndominiums, 3D-printed homes, and shipping-container homes, and examines common regulatory barriers and potential regulatory reforms planners and local officials may be able to use to foster housing innovation and advance sustainable, resilient, and inclusive housing solutions. -
Eliminating Map-to-Text Discrepancies
Zoning Practice — October 2024What happens when a zoning map doesn't match the zoning text? This issue of Zoning Practice explores the prevalence, political and legal implications, and types of map-to-text discrepancies. It concludes with recommended actions local planners and public officials can take to eliminate this problem. -
UC Berkeley Othering & Belonging Institute Zoning Reform Tracker
Updated November 2023This page includes a database and webmap to track zoning reforms across the country. -
Harvesting Benefits from Incentive Zoning
Zoning Practice — May 2025This issue of Zoning Practice explores how incentive-based zoning has evolved over the decades to become an increasingly effective tool in helping communities reach their planning goals and community vision. It begins with an overview of the origins and evolution of incentive-based zoning in the U.S. before presenting a modern, three-pronged approach. -
The Rules That Shape Urban Form
PAS Report 570by: Donald Elliott, FAICP, Matthew Goebel, AICP, Chad Meadows, AICP October 01, 2012Form-based codes are one of the many tools planners have for shaping the city. This PAS Report examines six ways cities have adopted form-based zoning tools and the results that followed.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Connecticut Planners Take Zoning Reform Fight to the State
by: Isabela DornelesZoning reform efforts are underway in Connecticut, a state with a long history of exclusionary zoning. Several bills that aim to tackle zoning reform are in play at the legislature this session — and planners are weighing in. -
Planners Secure Zoning Reform Win in Massachusetts
by: Isabela DornelesA new economic development bill includes provisions that will make it easier for towns and cities across Massachusetts to produce more housing by greenlighting certain local zoning changes with a simple majority vote. -
National Zoning Atlas Founder Sara Bronin is Empowering Communities to Transform Land Use
In this episode of the People Behind the Plans podcast, Sara Bronin, Founder and Director of the National Zoning Atlas, explains how an effort to Desegregate Connecticut paved the way for the National Zoning Atlas and how planners are contributing to — and benefiting from — this movement to demystify and democratize the policies that shape communities. -
Minimizing Reliance on Discretionary Approvals
Zoning Practice — April 2016by: Lane Kendig April 01, 2016This issue of Zoning Practice explains how communities can use existing zoning tools to minimize reliance on discretionary approvals. It explains how discretionary approvals came to be widespread in zoning codes before unpacking specific alternatives to variances, conditional use approvals, and discretionary planned unit development (PUD) processes.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Codifying Zoning's Little Helpers
Zoning Practice — December 2015by: David Morley, AICP, Nicholas Walny December 01, 2015This issue of Zoning Practice looks at the intersections between zoning and other specialized local regulations that affect the use of land. It discusses several types of non-zoning provisions that occasionally get incorporated into local zoning codes and proposes a framework for making codification decisions about land-use related ordinances.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Effective Zoning Methods for Implementing Plans
Zoning Practice — August 2015by: Douglas Hammel, AICPThis issue of Zoning Practice introduces several considerations that can help planners bridge the gap between community vision and the realized built environment. It identifies the best ways to amend or replace a zoning ordinance through calibration, modernization, and transformation.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Lessons for In-House Zoning Revisions
Zoning Practice — May 2015by: Somer Cross, AICP May 01, 2015This issue of Zoning Practice uses lessons learned from specific in-house revision processes to highlight a series of recommendations for communities considering staff-led comprehensive zoning amendments. These recommendations address getting started, coordination with comprehensive planning, gathering information, and implementation.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Zoning Codes in Plain English
Zoning Practice — January 2015by: Benjamin Noble January 01, 2015This issue of Zoning Practice discusses a series of key plain English principles for planners and zoning professionals to apply in code writing. Many of these principles fall into five general categories: (1) organization, (2) wayfinding, (3) sentence length, (4) sentence structure, and (5) word choice.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Aligning Development Codes with the Law
Zoning Practice — November 2014by: Mark White, AICP November 01, 2014This issue of Zoning Practice provides planners and zoning professionals with guidance about the legal issues to consider when drafting a development code. It includes tips about how to put the code together in a way that considers issues of statutory authority and constitutionality and describes how to write in a way that avoids “legalese.”List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Smart Codes: Model Land-Development Regulations
PAS Report 556by: Marya Morris, FAICP April 15, 2009This PAS Report is a guide to the development of model smart growth ordinances, with guidance for policymakers and planners alike.List Price$0.00 -
Code-Ready Sustainable Planning
Zoning Practice — August 2013by: Douglas FarrThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses the types of gaps communities may have between plan recommendations and code provisions and provides a primer on how planners can use quantifiable planning objectives to guide the development of zoning provisions.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Avoiding Common Form-Based Code Mistakes, Part 2
Zoning Practice — June 2013by: Daniel Parolek June 01, 2013This issue of Zoning Practice continues the previous issue’s discussion of common form-based coding mistakes, this time focusing on how a lack of planning can undermine a form-based coding effort and taking a closer look at how use permissions and development standards need to be recalibrated to ensure that a new form-based code produces the desired results.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Avoiding Common Form-Based Code Mistakes, Part 1
Zoning Practice — May 2013by: Daniel Parolek May 01, 2013This issue of Zoning Practice tackles some common misconceptions about form-based coding and highlights some common mistakes communities have made when trying to harmonize form-based coding concepts with existing regulations.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Beyond the Density Standard
Zoning Practice — November 2012by: Norman Wright, AICP November 01, 2012This issue of Zoning Practice explains how zoning techniques rooted in the form and physical character of development can address community concerns about compatibility better than simple density limits.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Consolidating Zoning Districts
Zoning Practice — February 2012by: Donald Elliott, FAICP February 01, 2012This issue of Zoning Practice presents a common sense approach to consolidating zoning districts with an eye toward more effective development regulation and user-friendly administration. And it highlights successful consolidation efforts from Duluth, Minnesota; Winnipeg, Manitoba; and Philadelphia.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Mapping Principles for Rezonings
Zoning Practice — December 2011by: Arista Strungys, FAICPWhen a municipality takes on comprehensive zoning reform, rewriting the text is only half the story. This issue of Zoning Practice offers some basic mapping principles both to guide planners as they undertake a remapping project and to help them explain the rationale behind map changes to the general public.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
One-District Zoning
Zoning Practice — June 2011by: Lane Kendig June 01, 2011The majority of communities have far more zoning districts than they need to manage their growth and development. This issue of Zoning Practice presents an innovative proposal for a zoning ordinance that uses a single district to protect character in rural areas.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Rezoning Urban Retail Strips to Create Neighborhood Centers
Zoning Practice — April 2011by: Tom SmithThis issue of Zoning Practice makes a case for planning new neighborhood retail and activity centers anchored by housing, institutions, and places of employment rather than the traditional anchors of department stores or supermarkets.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Codifying New Urbanism: How to Reform Municipal Land Development Regulations
PAS Report 526by: Congress for the New Urbanism, APA Planning Advisory Service June 30, 2004Those who want to use the principles of New Urbanism in their communities will find in this PAS Report a variety of ways to modify their land development regulations, plus 12 success stories.List Price$25.00APA member & PAS subscriber$0.00 -
Defining and Measuring Community Character
Zoning Practice — December 2010by: Bret Keast, AICP December 01, 2010This issue of Zoning Practice lays out a framework to describe the general characteristics of different classes and types of community character and suggests means and metrics communities can use to define character in local plans and zoning.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
A Crack in the Code?
The hoped-for cure for use-based zoning ills hasn't quite taken off. But form-based coding’s emphasis on form has had a big impact on modern zoning.October 01, 2016Form-based coding’s emphasis on form has had a big impact on modern zoning. -
Overhauling Your Zoning Code
Zoning Practice — December 2008by: Gail Easley December 01, 2008This issue of Zoning Practice outlines a process for updating and modernizing local zoning codes to achieve more effective and efficient development regulations.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Better Zoning on the Web
Zoning Practice — October 2008by: Donald Elliott, FAICP October 01, 2008This issue of Zoning Practice identifies four technology-related changes that will transform the organization, use, and maintenance of local land-use laws.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Planning Home
Through this organization-wide initiative, APA aims to reshape the way planning is used to address America's housing affordability crisis. -
Eliminating Zoning Barriers to Affordable Housing Guidebook
This guide provides solutions for planners to address the housing supply and affordability crisis in their communities through zoning reform. -
Development Codes for Built Out Communities
Zoning Practice — August 2006by: Mark White, AICP August 01, 2006This issue of Zoning Practice addresses the unique concerns of applying development codes to built out communities, including ensuring appropriate context and managing the public process.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Classifying and Defining Uses and Building Forms
Zoning Practice — September 2005by: Mark White, AICPThis issue of Zoning Practice introduces the concept of a land-use classification system and explores different approaches to defining and categorizing uses and building forms in zoning codes.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Monitoring and Evaluating a Zoning Code
Zoning Practice — July 2005by: Arthur IentilucciThis issue of Zoning Practice discusses Rochester, New York's efforts to monitor and evaluate outcomes against its zoning code's stated intentions.List Price$10.00ZP subscriber$0.00 -
Mechanics of Code Writing
This presentation covers the ABCs of code writing. Learn how to target problem issues, allocate resources, integrate graphics, and manage the process of producing a code that stands up to scrutiny.January 1, 2011, 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. CST- Wayne H. Feuerborn,
- Tina Axelrad
- Elizabeth A. Garvin,
- Mark White,
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