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rAl GROWTH City°f INSTITUTE Pequot --__ -- Lakes,. GROW ZONE EXPANSION COMMITTEE MEETING �- Discussion: Many times, zoning codes are critized for being too "wordy". A challenge was put out to the New Urbanist Community to create a land use regulatory document that fits on a single page of paper. A planner from a small town in Tennessee did just that. From the author's blog in an open letter to Andres Duany, founder of Congress for the New Urbanism: This single page of code could regulate my City in the same manner that the Memphis Plan regulated that town in the 1920's. This single page is the "principled" code you so wonderfully described. It contains the process, the legal language, the design standard, the definitions, and the pattern logic for making places. To borrow from Pareto, this base code is built of what I think is the 20% that makes the other 80% of SmartCode functional. This is the core that allows us to plan and design for "place", as you say, instead of "time". Naturally, I must hedge my argument and say that this is not the ultimate solution. But I think it gets closer. I think it moves in the right direction. All the other codes are absolutely moving in the worst direction possible. They are growing in size, gaining more weight, losing their dexterity, suffering from plaque buildup and blurred vision. The one page form based code is attached. Pequot Lakes Staff Report June 21,2012