Creating Urban Form: Conventional and Form-Based Codes
How Do We Design a 21st Century City?
Held on November 6, 2007
7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Fletcher Opera Theater
in Raleigh, NC
Presentation:
GET ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS
Cities all over the world are striving to create more accessible and walkable urban environments. Development patterns are the result of zoning regulations. Conventional codes are based on specific land uses. Form-based codes are based on design, and less on use.
What are form-based codes, anyway?
What are the pros and cons of conventional codes?
What are the pros and cons of form-based codes?
Why does zoning sometimes forbid exactly what our plans call for?
Great cities of the world were created without zoning; why do we need rules at all?
OUR PRESENTER
Bill Spikowski is a veteran advisor to local governments. He is a frequent lecturer on innovative planning and coding techniques. His Florida consulting firm, Spikowski Planning Associates, prepares community plans, redevelopment plans, and zoning codes for cities and counties. Mr. Spikowski has many years’ experience in drafting and implementing conventional zoning codes. He also is a pioneer in using form-based coding techniques to translate bold visions for the future into an integral part of local regulations. He is an officer and board member of the Form-Based Codes Institute and teaches about form-based codes in conjunction with Virginia Tech, Rutgers, and Arizona State. Prior to 1992 Mr. Spikowski was Growth Management Director for Lee County, FL. In additional to his consulting work, he is chairman of the Fort Myers, FL, Planning Board and co-founder and officer of the Calusa Land Trust & Nature Preserve.
A sample of Mr. Spikowski’s work is available at www.spikowski.com
For more information on the November 6 lecture and to sign up for the lecture series mailing list, email trisha.hasch@ci.raleigh.nc.us or call 919-807-8480.
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If you would like to attend, please register. Find directions to the Performing Arts Center and parking locations at www.progressenergycenter.com and click on “An Evening Out.” For overnight accommodations in Raleigh click on www.visitRaleigh.com
Prior to the lecture, please plan to attend the Twenty-Fifth Annual Sir Walter Raleigh Awards for Community Appearance, beginning at 5:45 p.m. Additional awards information: http://www.raleighnc.gov/sirwalterraleighawards
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