Sustainable Community Development Code
“Sustainable Community Development Code Reform” Initiative
This initiative seeks to bring sustainability to the forefront as a land use issue and understand how local governments can support sustainable communities through innovative land use codes.
Initiative Objectives:
- Identify key sustainability issues and find ways to address them in the land use regulatory process through new standards, incentives, and the elimination of barriers.
- Analyze how current approaches to zoning, such as performance and form-based systems, must evolve in order to promote sustainable communities.
- Explore the nexus between sustainable land use planning and regulation, drawing upon examples from progressive communities that have adopted sustainable land use provisions.
- Develop and Implement a sustainable zoning code framework.
- Educate end-users, including local officials, developers, citizens, and professionals in order to foster awareness of how communities move towards sustainability.
- Act as a catalyst to bring various disciplines together – from agriculture, health, design, planning, etc. to form a coalition to support and promote sustainable development codes.
Sustainable Community Development Code and Other Related Documents:
- Sustainable Community Development Code Beta Version 1.1 »
- Power Point presentation: Click Here to view the PDF.
- Saving the World Through Zoning »
Communities using the Code Framework
- Communities are using the code framework to adopt new codes, revamp existing codes or as a code audit tool
- Salt Lake City, Utah
- City & County of Denver, Colorado
September 2007 Symposium
- Research Monologues
- Sustainable Zoning: A New Imperative »
- Healthy Neighborhoods, Housing, Food System
- Community Health and the Built Environment
- Affordable Housing »
- Housing Diversity and Accessibility »
- Historic Preservation
- Healthy Food Systems »
- Community Identity and Governance
- Community Development »
- Technology vs. Organic Communications Strategies in Public Engagement
- Meaningful Participation for Vulnerable Communities in Planning & Environmental Clean-Up Processes
- Socio-Economic Sustainability & Meaningful Community Input in Land Use Decisions »
- Energy
- Wind and Solar Energy Production »
- Site Design Strategies for Solar Access »
- Energy Efficiency and Conservation
- Energy Transmission and Distribution »
- Urban Form, Transportation
- Natural Hazards
- Floodplain Management »
- Wildland-Urban Interface »
- Coastal Hazards
- Environmental Health
- People’s Relationship to Their Environment
- Security and Crime Prevention »
- Peacefulness and Livability »
- Authentic Development Patterns