We Need Code Reform: How Do We Get There?

[Metro Jacksonville]

We Need Code Reform: How Do We Get There?



Nationally, the ongoing conversation about how to fix our urban cores, especially the historic neighborhoods surrounding the downtown has been grappling with the need for better planning codes.  Similar to the various overlays in Springfield, Downtown and Riverside Avondale.  But are these really the best approach? Do they create dead ends rather than causing comprehensive reforms for the whole city's code? Are they steeped in what the author of this article from the Congress of New Urbanism refers to as a wrong assumption that residential neighborhoods are composed of single family, owner occupied homes?

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