Performance zoning is a land use planning concept that has its roots in building codes that established performance standards as opposed to specification standards. This is the manual that introduced the concept of performance zoning and includes a complete in depth review and analysis model ordinance based on Bucks County. There are advantages to the performance zoning approach. In some ways it requires less administrative involvement, since variances, appeals and re-zonings are not necessary. It also gives more flexibility both to the municipality and to the developer, allowing more of a range of land uses, as long as their impact is not negative....A primary disadvantage of performance zoning is that as a result of its flexibility it is subject to a steeper learning curve. Author Lane Kendig has experience in land use planning, growth management, housing, environmental planning, zoning and land use controls, site and land design, and impact and feasibility analyses. He has worked throughout the United States and in Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. His projects include comprehensive plans and implementing regulations; zoning, subdivision, and land development regulations; and impact and management systems. He has written plans and ordinances separately and simultaneously and studied special problems concerning economic development, transportation, growth management, special zoning regulations, and open space programs, among others.

Performance Zoning

Kendig, Lane

Planners Press, American Planning Association

While many authors have written about what urban plans should contain and how they should be used, this comprehensive book leads you step by step through the entire plan preparation process. Citing examples from across the country, Larz Anderson shows how to prepare, review, adopt, and implement urban plans. He explains how to identify public needs and desires, analyze existing problems and opportunities, and augment long-range general plans with short-range district and function plans. Anderson presents these guidelines as tasks. For each task, he explains the rationale behind it, recommends a procedure for completing it, and identifies the expected results. Throughout, Anderson encourages improvisation â€” he urges planners to adapt the guidelines to meet local needs. Excerpts from recently adopted general plans illustrate Anderson's points and provide examples of variations even within his recommendations. A related glossary gives comprehensive definitions to words that, though not technical, have meanings specific to the urban plan.

Guidelines for preparing urban plans

Anderson, Larz T.

How exactly do small towns become suburbs? How do country roads turn into commercial strips? And what can planners do to prevent these changes in the future? Using the state of Vermont as the rural ideal, the authors compare contemporary vs. traditional development to demonstrate how today's primary way of developing land-suburban sprawl is forever changing the look of rural American. Using a host of aerial photographs-many altered through computer simulation to illustrate how landscapes are transformed over time- ?Above and Beyond ? argues for a return to traditional development patterns that produce more compact cities and towns. Highlighting widespread trends in contemporary land development-from fragmentation (our tendency to spread out) to separation (our tendency to allocate separate areas of town for living, working, shopping and playing)-the authors offer case examples of communities that have succeeded in curbing those trends. They show how these communities have invigorated their town centers; lured home buyers back to town; integrated working, shopping and recreation areas; nurtured a sense of identity and community; rewritten land-use regulations to allow for more compact developing; and overcome the cars rule mentality of suburban development.

Above and beyond: Visualizing change in small towns and rural areas

Politics & Social Sciences

Campoli, Julie

Social Sciences

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Performance Zoning

Guidelines for preparing urban plans

Above and beyond: Visualizing change in small towns and rural areas