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Development controls and urban design tools

• Conventional zoning
• Design review
• Land use strategies
• Environmental impact analysis
• Public Investment
• Special area plans
• Corridor plans
• Bonuses and incentives
• Appearance and view mandates
• Historic preservation

Themes among community design guidelines

• Guidelines serve to announce public objectives and visions for future community character and appearance that can be applied through a variety of regulatory and non-regulatory mediums

• Guidelines are usually advisory in nature, providing criteria and performance standards by which proposed projects can be evaluated

• Guidelines frequently are employed within a regulatory framework that establishes ground rules and requirements that prompt neighborhood responses to guidelines

• Guidelines often offer a range of choices that allow developers and builders to tailor responses to specific site and market constraints

Obstacles Neo-traditionalism & TOD

• Most zoning ordinances and subdivisions require densities, lot and yard sizes, road widths and other standards inconsistent with neo-traditional and TOD

• The concepts are inconsistent with the "big box" trend

• Densities and design styles are not universally accepted

• May have limited success in actually changing people's lifestyles

• Approaches tend to be inflexible

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