The county, the City of Beaufort and Town of Port Royal agreed to hire Opticos Design Inc. of Berkeley, Calif., to draft a multi-jurisdictional code for $500,000.
By ditching conventional land-use zoning in favor of a form-based code, currently under development, the city will encourage a more appealing and cohesive design of buildings, landscapes and streets.
Mayor Dave Cieslewicz launched a rewrite of the city’s automobile-oriented 1966 zoning code in 2007 and the effort is projected to go to council in early 2011.
On the Florida Panhandle, Robert Davis's Seaside set an important precedent three decades ago by banning tall buildings that would close off views of the Gulf of Mexico.
Exactly a century after Congress capped the height of buildings in the capital, some are making the sacrilegious suggestion that tall buildings should be welcomed.
"Overland Park is stealing a page from the Country Club Plaza’s playbook in an effort to streamline development and create New Urbanism in its downtown.
