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Bragado, Nancy; Judy Corbett; and Sharon Sprowls. Building Livable Communities: A Policymaker's Guide to Infill Development. Local Government Commission, 1995; Revised January 2001.

Corbett, Judy & Paul Zykofsky. Building Livable Communities: A Policymaker's Guide to Transit-Oriented Development. Local Government Commission, August 1998.

Cumberland Region Tomorrow. Quality Growth Toolbox. 2006 (This addresses code issues for a wide variety of situations, as does Envision Utah.)


Elliott, Don. A Better Way to Zone. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2008.

Envision Utah. Ordinances .

Form-Based Codes Institute website .

Freilich, Robert & White, Mark. A 21st Century Land Development Code. Chicago, Illinois: American Planning Association, 2008.

Georgia Department of Community Affairs. Toolkit of Best Practices. Online compendium of model codes .

Hutton, “The Power of Composite: Shaking Conventions with Conventional Zoning,” Practicing Planner (Spring 2006).

Hutton, “Zoning a la carte: how to win friends and influence people with a combination of formbased coding and use standards, Planning (January, 2006).

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International Dark Sky Association. Lighting Ordinances. .

Jarvis, Frederick D. Site Planning and Community Design for Great Neighborhoods. Washington, D.C.: Home Builder Press, National Association of Home Builders, August 1993.

Kendig, Lane et al. Performance Zoning. Chicago: American Planning Association, 1980.

Kendig, Lane. New Standards for Nonresidential Uses. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 405, December 1987.

Knack, “One Step at a Time: UDOs in Nashville,” Planning (January, 2006).

Langdon, “The Not-So-Secret Code,” Planning (January, 2006).

Lehman & Associates. The Zoning Provisions Encyclopedia. Barrie, Ontario: 1999.

Local Government Commission in cooperation with U.S. EPA. Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community (September 2003).

Local Government Commission

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Mandelker, Daniel R. Planned Unit Developments. Planning Advisory Service, Report No.545, March 2007.

Maryland Department of Planning. Models & Guidelines.

McMahon, Edward T. & Shelly Mastran. Better Models For Development in California: Ideas for Enhancing Small Towns and Suburban Communities. The Conservation Fund and Local Government Commission, 2003.

Metro Council, Metro 2040 Land-Use Code Workbook: A Guide for Updating Local Land Use Codes (now called Livable Communities Workbook) Portland, Oregon: Metro Council, 1998.

Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. From Policy to Reality: Model Ordinances for Sustainable Development. September 2000.

Morris, Marya. Creating Transit-Supportive Land-Use Regulations. APA Planning Advisory Service, Report No. 468, Dec. 1996.

Oregon Department of Transportation, Transportation and Growth Management Program. Smart Development Code Handbook. Aug. 1997.

Oregon Transportation and Growth Management Program. The Principles of Smart Development. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 479.

Parolek, Daniel G.; Parolek, Karen; & Crawford, Paul C. Form Based Codes: A Guide for Planners, Urban Designers, Municipalities, and Developers. Wiley, 2008.

Porter, Douglas R., Patrick L. Phillips and Terry J. Lassar. Flexible Zoning: How it Works. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1988.

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Slone, Dan & Doris Goldstein, eds. A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Schilling, Joseph and Nadejda Mishkovsky. Creating a Regulatory Blueprint for Healthy Community Design A Local Government Guide to Reforming Zoning and Land Development Codes. International City/County Management Association, Item Number E-43346, August 2005.

Smart Communities Network. Land Use Codes/Ordinances . Online resource at .

Snohomish County Transportation Authority. A Guide to Land Use and Public Transportation for Snohomish County, Washington, Vol. I. Lynwood, W ashington : SCTA, 1989.

Snohomish County Transportation Authority. A Guide to Land Use and Public Transportation— Volume II: Applying the Concepts. Lynwood, W ashington : SCTA, 1993.

Sustainable Community Development Code.

Sutro, Suzanne. Reinventing the Village. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 430, December 1990.

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Tracy, Steve. Smart Growth Zoning Codes: A Resource Guide. Local Government Commission, 2003.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Smart Growth.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Examples of Codes That Support Smart Growth Development.

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Proposed Model Land Development Standards and Accompanying Model State Enabling Legislation. Washington D.C.: HUD, 1993. Part I-Standards, Pages 7-138.

U.S. Green Building Council. LEED for Neighborhood Development Rating System: Pilot Version. (Updated June 2007) .

Vranicar, John, Welford Sanders, and David Mosena. Streamlining Land Use Regulation: A Guidebook for Local Governments. Chicago: American Planning Association. (November 1980)

Washington, D.C. Office of Planning. Zoning Best Practices. (June 2008)

Wentling, James W. and Lloyd W. Bookout, eds. Density by Design. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 1988.

White, S. Mark. Affordable Housing: Proactive and Reactive Planning Strategies. American Planning Association, Planning Advisory Service Report No. 441, (December 1992).

White, Mark, “Classifying and Defining Uses and Building Forms: Land-Use Coding for Zoning Regulations” Zoning Practice (September 2005).

White, Mark, “Development Codes for Built Out Communities,” Zoning Practice (August 2006).

White & Jourdan, “Neotraditional Development: A Legal Analysis,” Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, No. 8 at 3 (August 1997).

White, Mark, “Unified Land Management Codes,” Municipal Lawyer (August 2006).

White, Mark, “Writing Defensible Codes,” The Commissioner (Winter 2006).

White, Mark. The Zoning and Real Estate Implications of Transit-Oriented Development. Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Legal Research Digest, No. 12 (January 1999).

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Other Zoning Updates:


Madison, Wisconsin — Zoning Code Rewrite.

Miami, Florida — Miami of the 21st Century .

Montgomery County — Zoning Code Rewrite.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Zoning Matters — The Official Site of the Philadelphia Zoning Code Commission.

Toronto, Ontario — Zoning Bylaw Project .

Washington, D.C.