Orange County, Florida, employs what could be the nation’s largest form-based code (FBC). The “Orange Code” was adopted simultaneously with the county’s Vision 2050 comprehensive plan, as it is called.
“The code covers land with around 900,000 residents in the unintegrated area of Orange County, and is designed to accommodate and directly improve growth towards walking urbanism.” In an article in CNU’s Public Squares, Robert Scheetville explains that the code update has its own zoning code and does not apply to cities directed at suburban retrofits.
The code that streamlines development applications and reviews and reduces documentation from 1,200 pages to 400 is called “spraw repair” because of its goal of reducing outward expansion and promoting infill development and increased density (for example, it does not completely eliminate minimum parking requirements).
According to Matt Lambert of DPZ Codeign, a consulting firm that led the creation of the new code, “It’s about redeveloping the county’s suburban arteries and collectors to create a walkable urban centre connected by urbanized corridors that support public transport. This is 6% of the county’s land area.”
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