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Staff seeks council blessing to advance downtown form-based code pilot after design charrette
Summary
Long-range planning staff presented a draft form-based code framework for a pilot downtown area, describing emerging character districts, stakeholder feedback and a path to draft code and adoption later this year.
Long-range planning staff and consultants presented an emerging form-based code (FBC) framework for a downtown pilot area at the May 27 work session, and asked the council for direction to proceed to a draft code and adoption process this fall.
The proposal matters because a form-based code would change how downtown redevelopment is regulated — replacing use-by-use zoning with standards that emphasize building placement, pedestrian orientation, transitions to neighborhoods and predictable design outcomes.
Taranee Lehi Palma, principal planner, said staff and consultants held a March design charrette and broad stakeholder outreach and that the draft regulating plan and code framework reflect public input calling for walkability, residential growth, historic preservation and flexible, market-driven standards. "The…
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