Samples
Prepared for the Village of Estero, FL
Examples of Previous Work performed by Clarion Associates
Below are three examples of projects that have been adopted or are currently in the public review phase. We have selected specific sections from each code to demonstrate our unique and well-established methodology for updating and modernizing development codes.
Upon request, we can provide complete copies of these ordinances.
Daytona Beach, FL | Land Development Code | 2011-2015
Daytona Beach retained Clarion Associates to prepare an update to the city’s existing Land Development Code. The goals of the update process included (1) making the code more user-friendly and more procedurally efficient; (2) implementing the goals and policy direction in the city’s adopted vision plan and comprehensive plan update; (3) modifying development regulations and practices in infill and built areas of the community to encourage redevelopment/revitalization that was compatible with desired context; (4) encouraging redevelopment of older, suburban-oriented commercial corridors into more mixed-use, pedestrian-oriented places; (5) ensuring the character of existing residential neighborhoods is protected, and (6) raising the bar for development quality in the community generally. The code was completed and adopted in spring 2015.
The document below has been reduced and includes key sections that separate us apart from other firms. You may also download a copy of the document: SAMPLE - Daytona Beach LDC.pdf (9.1MB).
Norfolk, VA | Zoning Ordinance Rewrite | 2014-present
In 2014, the City of Norfolk retained Clarion Associates, along with the Renaissance Planning Group and Herd Planning and Design to undertake a rewrite of the its 25-year-old zoning ordinance. Norfolk has had the highest rate of measured sea level rise of any east coast city over the last 100 years, with estimates that sea level rise will continue to increase consistent with historic levels. For this and other reasons, the city was one of the initial communities included in the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Initiatives. One of the primary goals of plaNorfolk2030, the city’s recently adopted plan, as well as the zoning ordinance rewrite, is to retool the zoning ordinance to support Norfolk as a more resilient city, both environmentally and economically. Over the past two and a half years, Clarion has worked with City planning staff to complete a rewritten user-friendly, modern development code that places a strong emphasis on resiliency concepts to ensure Norfolk’s development practices are some of the most resilient in the nation.
The document below has been reduced and includes key sections that separate us apart from other firms. You may also download a copy of the document: SAMPLE - Norfolk ZO - Public Hearing Draft.pdf (9.9 MB).
Prince George’s County, MD | Zoning and Subdivision Rewrite | 2014-present
In early 2014, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s Prince George’s County Planning Department retained Clarion Associates and a team of eight sub-consultants to undertake a rewrite of the county’s 50 year old Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations, which has not been comprehensively updated in over 50 years. Prince George’s is a major urban county in the Washing D.C. metropolitan area with 16 transit stations, several large universities, the Washington redskins football stadium, and a substantial number of federal offices. The overriding goals for the rewrite are to realize and implement land use rules for the 21st century that implement the recently adopted Plan Prince George’s 2035, support desired types of economic development and high- density, mixed-use, walkable urbanism around the transit stations and in other appropriate locations, protect established neighborhoods, and incorporate modern zoning best practices. With extensive public, stakeholder, review board, and elected official input throughout the process, Clarion completed the code diagnostic, and then over the subsequent two years completed a rewrite of the regulations. The Comprehensive Review Draft of the rewritten regulations is now being reviewed by the County, and public hearing are tentatively scheduled for early 2018.
The document below has been reduced and includes key sections that separate us apart from other firms. You may also download a copy of the document: SAMPLE - PGC - Comprehensive Draft Zoning.pdf (9.9 MB).
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