A Delaware Guide to Form-Based Codes

December 2013

By: State of Delaware - Office of State Planning Coordination

http://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/12994/FBC-Guide-Web-2013-10-25.pdf
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Form-Based Zoning

This fact sheet discusses the four common factors all form-based codes are comprised of as well as form-based code benefits. The four common factors are:

  1. Regulating Plan
  2. Building Form Standards
  3. Open/Public Space Standards
  4. Thoroughfare/Street Standards

 

It further explains how form-based codes are a simpler way to regulate growth than conventional zoning.