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Definition of a Form-Based Code

Video: Creating Urban Form
by Bill Spikowski, AICP

Checklist for Identifying and Evaluating Form-Based Codes

Sample RFQ for Consultants to Prepare a Form-Based Code (73KB Microsoft Word document)

Eight Advantages to Form-Based Codes

Books and Articles

FBCI provides access to these articles as a resource to our web site visitors, but does not necessarily endorse the viewpoints expressed therein.

“The Future of Zoning,” (2MB pdf) Ed Tombari, Land Development, Spring 2009.

“Hybrid codes versus form-based codes,” (259KB pdf) Kaizer Rangwala, New Urban News, April/May 2009.

Form-Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers, Daniel G. Parolek, Karen Parolek, and Paul C. Crawford, Wiley, 2008.

A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development for Planners, Developers and Architects, Daniel K. Slone and Doris S. Goldstein, Wiley, 2008.

New Economics of Place (568 KB pdf), Scott Polikov, Chamber Executive, 2008.


“In the Tropical Zone,” (3.3MB pdf) David Raterman, Planning Magazine, December 2007.

Zoning Reform Has Begun: Form-Based Codes, The National Association of REALTORS®.


Place Making with Form-Based Codes (2.4MB pdf), Mary E. Madden and Bill Spikowski, Urban Land, September 2006.

“Form-Based Land Development Regulations” (560 KB pdf) by Robert Sitkowski & Brian Ohm, published in Urban Lawyer, Volume 38, No.1, Winter 2006. © 2006 by the American Bar Association. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved. This information or any portion thereof may not be copied or disseminated in any form or by any means or stored in an electronic database or retrieval system without the express written consent of the American Bar Association.

Function Follows Form, Bob Sperber, Professional Builder, September 1, 2005.

Form-Based Codes: Implementing Smart Growth” (3.9 MB pdf), Local Government Commission

Form-Based Zoning, CD-ROM of National APA conference presentations, Paul C. Crawford, Bill Dennis, and Geoffrey Ferrell, APA, 2004.

“Form First,” (144KB pdf) Peter Katz, Planning Magazine, November 2004.

“Retooling Planners” (140 KB pdf), Kaizer Rangwala, Places, 17.1.

Smart Growth Zoning Codes: A Resource Guide, Steve Tracy, Local Government Commission, 2003.

Alternative Methods of Land Development Regulation, Victor Dover.

The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community, Peter Katz, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994.

Code Documents

2008 Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award Winners:

· Downtown Mixed Use Master Plan, Benicia, California (6.6 MB pdf)

· Near Southside Development Standards and Guidelines, Fort Worth, Texas (6.7 MB pdf)

· Midtown Corridors Development Code, Ventura, California (26.9 MB pdf)

2007 Driehaus Form-Based Codes Award Winners:

· Towns, Villages, Countryside Land Development Regulations, St. Lucie County, Florida (7.8 MB pdf)

· Leander TOD SmartCode, Leander, Texas (10.5 MB pdf)

· Gulfport SmartCode, Gulfport, Mississippi (18.5 MB pdf)

· Station Area Form-Based Code, Farmers Branch, Texas (34.8 MB pdf)

Central Petaluma SmartCode, Fisher & Hall Urban Design, Crawford Multari & Clark Associates, Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates, Sargent Town Planning, and CharreteCenter.com

City of Azusa Draft Development Code, Crawford Multari & Clark and Moule & Polyzoides Architects

City of Flagstaff
TND Ordinance: Ch. 10-17 of the Land Development Code with amendments to other sections of the code
Tables 1-17 of the TND Ordinance
Revisions to the Engineering Standards: New Chs. 10-12 to provide for Thoroughfare Standards in TNDs

City of Grass Valley Draft Development Code, Opticos Design and Crawford Multari & Clark Associates

The Columbia Pike Special Revitalization District Form Based Code, Arlington, VA

Fort Myers Beach (FL), Dover, Kohl & Partners and Spikowski Planning Associates

The New Pleasant Hill BART Station Property Code,
Lennertz Coyle and Associates and Geoffrey Ferrell Associates

Main Code Document (580 KB pdf)

Regulating Plan (170 KB pdf)

Architectural Standards (2.7 MB pdf)

The New Urban Code for Woodford County, Kentucky (4.8 MB pdf), Ferrell Rutherford Associates

Regulating Code for the Central Hercules Plan (4.0 MB pdf), Dover, Kohl & Partners

Sarasota County (FL) Mixed-Use Infill Code, Dover, Kohl & Partners and Spikowski Planning Associates

SmartCode v. 9.0, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company

Sonoma Development Code (14.4 MB pdf), Crawford Multari & Clark Associates, Moule & Polyzoides, Jacobson & Wack, and Urban Design Studio

Ventura Downtown Specific Plan, Crawford Multari & Clark Associates, Moule & Polyzoides, and Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates

FBCI Board Members’ Code Sites

Ferrell Madden Lewis LLC

Opticos Design, Inc.

Spikowski Planning Associates



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