Both Miami, Florida, and Montgomery, Alabama, have had form-based codes in place for more than five years. How are these codes working? What lessons have both communities learned since adopting them? And how can other communities working to adopt such form-based codes benefit from those lessons? Find out while learning how both communities have used the SmartCode template to achieve zoning reform and smart growth goals.
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Chad D. Emerson
City of Montgomery
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Bio: Director of City Development for the City of Montgomery
Education: Lipscomb University, Bachelor of Arts University of Tennessee, Juris Doctorate
Key Publications: The SmartCode Solution to Sprawl, ELI Publishing
Past Assignments: New Partners for Smart Growth International Downtown Association Congress for the New Urbanism
Paul Crabtree
Professional Civil Engineer
Crabtree Group, Inc.
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Bio: President of Crabtree Group, Inc. a 14 year-old multi-disciplinary civil engineering firm specializing in sustainable infrastructure that contributes to place-making. CGI provides charrette management, green infrastructure analysis and designs, and traditional neighborhood development infrastructure design.
Education: B.A. Physics - Hamline University B.S. Civil Engineering - Washington University Form-Based Codes 101-301 Certified Charrette Manager CNU-A
Key Publications: Contributing author to "Sustainable and Resilient Communities" Wiley 2010 Several articles for Stormwater Magazine
Past Assignments: Forester University Webinars: "Green Infrastructure and Community Design" (2013), "Watershed Restoration and Green Infrastructure" (2012) New Partners for Smart Growth "SmartCode Workshop" 2010 Congress for the New Urbanism "Rainwater and Community Design" (2011), "Integrated Water Infrastructure" (2012) StormCon 2012, 2011, 2010 "Green Infrastructure and Community Design" Plenary Panel Speaker 2011
Victor B. Dover, FAICP
Principal
Dover Kohl & Partners
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Bio: Victor Dover cofounded Dover, Kohl & Partners, Town Planners, in 1987. Mr. Dover earned his degrees in architecture and urban design from Virginia Tech and the University of Miami. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is a charter member of the Congress for the New Urbanism. He served as CNU’s national chair from 2010 to 2012. Mr. Dover and his firm’s cofounder Joseph Kohl were recently awarded the John Nolen Medal for contributions to urbanism. Their work is found in more than a dozen major textbooks on city planning, and Mr. Dover’s new book The Art of Street Design will be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2013.
Emily Talen, FAICP
Professor
Arizona State University
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Bio: Professor, Arizona State University, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning and School of Sustainability
Education: Phd, University of California, Santa Barbara; MCRP, Ohio State University
Key Publications: New Urbanism and American Planning: The Conflict of Cultures, Routledge, 2005; Design for Diversity, Architectural Press, 2008; Urban Design Reclaimed, Planners Press, 2009; City Rules, Island Press, 2012
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