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To help avoid the pitfalls that foiled the other plans, Mr. Lesko said, he is using what he calls "form-based zoning," which emphasizes design rather than density, and which elicits community engagement from the outset, "building from the ground up as opposed to top down."
NYT > Home Page By MARCELLE S. FISCHLER 2011
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A structural syllabus is a form-based syllabus, organized primarily according to criteria of structural complexity.
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Any successful urban adage, such as "@mayorsmith: we need form-based zoning in Anytown", needs to be, well, what you just read.
Charles R. Wolfe: Updating "Make No Little Plans": Urbanism, Social Network-Style Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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The slide author can see which slides audience members commented on, or provided form-based feedback to.
Presentations That Live On The Web David F. Carr 2010
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Any successful urban adage, such as "@mayorsmith: we need form-based zoning in Anytown", needs to be, well, what you just read.
Charles R. Wolfe: Updating "Make No Little Plans": Urbanism, Social Network-Style Charles R. Wolfe 2011
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A structural syllabus is a form-based syllabus, organized primarily according to criteria of structural complexity.
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The plans were embraced by the locals, culminating most notably in the adoption of a new, form-based zoning code in 2008 that would enable exactly the kind of rebuilding that the town needed and still needs.
F. Kaid Benfield: Village Green: With the Oil Spill, What Will Become of Pass Christian? 2010
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Particularly perverse was the rise in interest of so-called "smart growth" policies such as form-based codes, in which government incentivizes, regulates, and subsidizes high-density, "sustainable," "livable," mixed-use developments.
Hurricane Katrina, Houston And The Humanitarian Case Against Zoning 2010
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Under that analysis the government can more easily insist that corporate form-based restrictions are fairly narrow, as Kagan did in the Citizens United oral arguments– it starts to sound like legislation criminalizing terrorizing black folk by burning crosses on their front lawns,* a very narrow law aimed at a very compelling public interest.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Corporations, Personhood, Metaphors, and Legal Fictions: 2009
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With the city taking notice of the obstacles that small businesses face here and making efforts with it's form-based zoning test case, we will hopefully continue to grow local services to supplement and compliment those already established thanks to the earlier pioneering entrepreneurs.
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