Since 2008, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls has been working with neighborhoods throughout the City to replace the City's traditional, land use-based zoning with a visually-based code based that examines the relationships between building form , surrounding buildings, and the street.
Form-based codes are considered to speed up the development process by making the permitting and approval process easier for developers. They won't be applied city-wide, but are attractive to neighborhoods that want to create, enhance, or maintain a mixed-use, walkable urban design.
College Hill, Madisonville, Walnut Hills and Westwood are among the neighborhoods interested in applying form-based codes to their neighborhoods.
The multi-day visioning process will allow residents, business owners, employees, developers, design professionals and other interested citizens to meet with the professional consultant team that's writing and illustrating the form-based code.
A 45-minute kickoff session will be offered at both 10 A.M. and at 2 P.M. on Saturday at Two Centennial Plaza, 805 Central Avenue, on the fourth floor.
Open studio hours will be held between 10 A.M. and 7 P.M. on Monday through Wednesday, during which interested parties can review the consultants' work and offer input.
Monday at noon, a "brown bag" lunch will present Complete Streets concepts. At 6 P.M., a "mid-way" update will be given on the consultants' progress.
Tuesday at noon, a second "brown bag" lunch will cover urban retail.
Wednesday's "brown bag" lunch will cover City economics. That evening at 6 P.M., the final results of the five-day charrette will be presented.
The Plan Build Live initiative is being funded by a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Development, awarded in 2010.
Bellevue became the first regional municipality to adopt form-based codes in March 2011.
For more information, visit http://www.planbuildlivecincinnati.com.
Previous reading on BC:
Overhaul of Cincinnati development code ramps up today (3/6/12)
Bellevue first local municipality to adopt form-based codes (3/21/11)
Preferred alternative for Cincinnati form-based codes discussed (5/3/10)
'Pin ups', presentation show how Bellevue can build on historic fabric (3/29/10)
Cincinnati form-based code initiative moves forward (2/5/09)
