Name: Zoning for Incremental Development
Author: Christy Dodson

Course Info

8 video lessons (101 Mins)
Published
2022
4.66

Preview Course

Browse Course Chapters

1.

Introduction

2 mins
2.

The Importance of Infill Development

9 mins
3.

Barriers to Infill Development

13 mins
4.

Regulations and Infill Development

16 mins
5.

Addressing Zoning Barriers 

22 mins
6.

Addressing Zoning Barriers , Part II

20 mins
7.

Other Regulatory Barriers

16 mins
8.

Wrap-Up

1 min

What You Will Learn

Understand key zoning barriers to small scale and infill development
Learn how to balance flexibility and character with zoning
Explore new approaches to regulation and zoning tools
Understand key development barriers outside of zoning
Learn how to balance trade-offs for infill development
Explore new tools beyond zoning for right-sizing development codes
Tips for evaluating community plans and drafting ordinance language to support small-scale development
Tips from municipalities across the United States for strategies to create, promote, and adopt new ordinances

Course Description

Zoning codes can be crafted to lower the barriers to neighborhood-scale development and infill housing by providing specific tools for more equitable and affordable development. The "Zoning for Incremental Development" course presents the concepts necessary to regulate for flexibility while also addressing common community concerns of character and context. The course will first identify common barriers within zoning, and then offer new tools and strategies to promote infill development in communities.

Zoning is not the only barrier to small-scale and infill development, however. This course will examine the other features of the development status quo, including building codes, common financing practices, and subdivision and site development ordinances (for example, tree protection ordinances, stormwater requirements, and other utility and infrastructure standards). The course will discuss the trade-offs between these common issues of development and strategies for reducing and eliminating barriers to new, sorely needed forms of development.