FBCI Courses

FBCI courses are taught by nationally prominent Form-Based Coding practitioners, professionals in the fields of planning, architecture, urban design, and land use law. The currently scheduled courses are listed below. AIA CES and APA AICP credits are available for these courses. Registration links will be added when they are available.
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Learn How Form-Based Codes can Transform Cities and Towns: A Recorded Webinar
Form-Based Codes can help to realize the full potential of communities as desirable and walkable places. This recorded webinar provides viewers with the information needed to assess the applicability of a form-based code for his or her situation. The 90-minute session is an ideal introduction for anyone within municipal government or who serves on a city council or commission. It will also be beneficial to private-sector developers, builders, and consultants interested in creating places of high value.

Topics covered:
• Why Use Form-Based Codes?
• The Rise of Conventional Zoning and Decline of Urbanism.
• How Form-Based Codes Differ from Conventional Zoning.
• Where Form-Based Codes are Typically Used.
• The Process for Preparing a Form-Based Code.
• Components of a Typical Form-Based Code.
• How Form-Based Codes Can Be Integrated with Conventional Zoning.
• Legal issues of Form-Based Codes

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The webinar will be available for viewing until April 14, 2010

The Form-Based Codes Institute has developed the following courses as a 3-course curriculum. Each person who completes either the ABCs course or the FBC 101 course followed by the FBC 201 and 301 courses will receive a certificate from FBCI verifying completion of the 3-course curriculum. In addition, graduates of the curriculum are given the privilege of participating in a listserv with other graduates in order to share information and best practices.

The ABC's of Form-Based Codes: Special One-Day Introduction
The ABCs of FBCs covers the principles and components of Form-Based Codes; a brief history of zoning and planning practice; an overview of FBC preparation, adoption and administration including a discussion of the legalities for Form-Based Coding; one or more case studies, a field exercise to observe and then code actual urban fabric, and a review of the kinds of FBCs. This course can replace FBC 101 as the required prerequisite to take either of the more advanced courses, FBC 201 or FBC 301.
March 24, 2010, Kansas City, Missouri

FBC 101: Introduction to Form-Based Coding
A prerequisite for the other two courses, this course covers the principles and components of Form-Based Codes; a brief history of zoning and planning practice; the legal basis for Form-Based Coding; a comparison of the tools available to shape community form and character provided by Euclidean zoning versus Form-Based Codes; a field exercise to increase participant understanding of the components of good urbanism and how they can be incorporated into a Form-Based Code; a review of the kinds of FBCs, FBC case studies, and an introduction to how an FBC is prepared. (Note: The ABC's of Form-Based Codes can be taken instead to advance to FBC 201 and 301. See above.)
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FBC 201: Preparing a Form-Based Code – Design Considerations
This course goes into depth on how to create and use building form and public space standards within a regulating plan in already built-out communities, Greenfield sites, redevelopment sites and regional plans. Architectural standards, imaging techniques for charrettes, and code document design are also covered. The course includes not only lectures presenting design principles and case studies but also hands-on participation creating regulation plans and their components.
February 18-19, 2010, Ventura, California

FBC 301: Completing, Adopting and Administering the Code
This course covers a checklist for evaluating the effectiveness of a Form-Based Code, an in-depth look at the advantages, disadvantages, and mechanics of mandatory, parallel and floating-zone forms of FBCs; how to structure the coding process, including what must happen before and after the code is drafted; what to keep and what to discard from an existing conventional code; the legal aspects of adopting a FBC i.e. its consistency with the comprehensive plan, adoption mechanics and insulating against potential challenges; and post-adoption implementation.
April 26-27, 2010, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Pricing:		Additional Information:
Private/Corporate Attendees Single Attendee: $750 Two or More Attendees: $700 each Public/Nonprofit/Student Attendees Single Attendee: $700 Two or More Attendees: $650 each		Instructor Bios

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