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Adopt the Neighborhood Conservation Code
Jun 23, 2011 Jon M
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The Neighborhood Conservation Code is published by the Center for Applied Transect Studies as a part of their SmartCode http://www.transect.org/codes.html , and I think it might be exactly what we’re needing right now.

From what I have seen, there is a strong consensus developing around the need to rebuild Tuscaloosa as a livable, healthy, well-connected, well-built, sustainable city. There is also an urgent need to move as quickly as possible toward those goals. As we know, doing it right and doing it fast aren’t especially compatible notions. Adoption of a modified form of the Neighborhood Conservation Code could help bridge that gap. We can get something both good and relatively fast, without having to re-invent the wheel.

Not only does it already embody the kind of form-based code we’ve been groping toward in our meetings, but it is already written in a form that we could quickly modify and adopt. In fact, as you will see in the document, it is designed precisely for that process: modification to suit local conditions and then rapid adoption.

All the code documents on the CATS website are freeware. I encourage you to download them see what you think.


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