By conducting a "code audit," local leaders can examine a community's zoning code and, if needed, propose, pursue and efficiently implement targeted change.
The terminology used in zoning codes and land use policies can be confusing. Here's a glossary of words and phrases used in planning discussions and documents.
Enabling Better Places: A Handbook for Improved Neighborhoods provides options for local leaders and advocates to consider as they identify and select the types of small-scale, incremental policy changes that can be made without overhauling a community's entire zoning code.
Inspiring Infill Spaces— See how 10 "constrained or oddly shaped" plots of land have been transformed with much-needed new housing. Source: Urban Land►
Developing a National Zoning Atlas— Researchers are "digitizing, demystifying and democratizing" access to the nation's estimated 30,000 zoning codes in order to help people "better understand these sometimes-opaque but incredibly influential laws." Source: ZoningAtlas.org ►
