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Initiative Objectives

• Identify key sustainability issues and find ways to address them in the land use regulatory process through new standards, incentives, and the elimination of barriers.

• Analyze how current approaches to zoning, such as performance and form-based systems, must evolve in order to promote sustainable communities.

• Explore the nexus between sustainable land use planning and regulation, drawing upon examples from progressive communities that have adopted sustainable land use provisions.

• Develop and Implement a sustainable zoning code framework.

• Educate end-users, including local officials, developers, citizens, and professionals in order to foster awareness of how communities move towards sustainability.

• Act as a catalyst to bring various disciplines together – from agriculture, health, design, planning, etc. to form a coalition to support and promote sustainable development codes.