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Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award 2012

Sponsored by FBCI with the generous support of the Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Lead Trust

The Board of Directors of the Form-Based Codes Institute is pleased to announce its sixth annual award for achievement in the writing and implementation of form-based codes. Form-based codes are a method of regulating development to achieve specific urban form. They create a predictable public realm primarily by controlling physical form and secondarily by land use.

Entries must be adopted into law by a unit of local government. Codes recently adopted as well as codes adopted in prior years are welcome. Entries should be codes intended to foster built results consistent with a master plan. The Award Jury is looking for codes showing one or both of the following characteristics:

A code that advances the field of form-based code writing;
A code that shows strong built results and "lessons learned".

Eligibility
There is no entry fee. Anyone is eligible to submit a legally adopted form-based code. However, if a current jury member, or member of a jury member's firm or organization are, or were, part of a code-writing team or a participant in the design, writing, adoption, or implementation process, that code is ineligible for review in the 2012 program.

Recognition
Award winners will be announced May 11, 2012 during a session called Today's Best Form-Based Codes, at the Congress for the New Urbanism's twentieth annual meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida. The planners and officials associated with the winning codes are invited to participate in this session to discuss their codes in detail.

Deadline
Submissions must be received by FBCI no later than Monday, March 19, 2012. Entrants are advised to use a mailing service that guarantees delivery date.

NOTE: Each submission must include five (5) copies of the Submission Materials Form, six (6) CDs and one (1) hard copy of the code document.

Enclose entry form with completed submission materials and mail to:

Form-Based Codes Institute
Attn: Alan Mammoser, Program Director
333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 510
Chicago, IL 60601
(tel. 312/731-4701)

Eligibility There is no entry fee. Anyone is eligible to submit a legally adopted form-based code. However, if a current jury member, or member of a jury member's firm or organization are, or were, part of a code-writing team or a participant in the design, writing, adoption, or implementation process, that code is ineligible for review in the 2012 program.	Recognition Award winners will be announced May 11, 2012 during a session called Today's Best Form-Based Codes, at the Congress for the New Urbanism's twentieth annual meeting in West Palm Beach, Florida. The planners and officials associated with the winning codes are invited to participate in this session to discuss their codes in detail.
Deadline Submissions must be received by FBCI no later than Monday, March 19, 2012. Entrants are advised to use a mailing service that guarantees delivery date. NOTE: Each submission must include five (5) copies of the Submission Materials Form, six (6) CDs and one (1) hard copy of the code document.	Enclose entry form with completed submission materials and mail to: Form-Based Codes Institute Attn: Alan Mammoser, Program Director 333 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 510 Chicago, IL 60601 (tel. 312/731-4701)

Award Jury for the 2012 Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award

Ana Gelabert-Sanchez, AICP (Jury Chair)
Harvard Loeb Fellow
Former Planning Director, City of Miami

Eduardo Castillo
Castillo Arquitectos
Guatemala City, Guatemala

Robert Sitkowski, Esq., AICP, LEED AP
Real Estate Officer
University of Connecticut

Emily Talen, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University

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