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Yoking Form-Based Codes and Historic Districs

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…Beaufort has conducted high-level comprehensive planning during the past decade, providing a 2009 comprehensive plan called Vision Beaufort. That plan proposed numerous smart-growth strategies, even mapping the community into a series of transect zones based on physical form and character.

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Form-Based Codes: Implementing Smart Growth

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Simply put, form-based codes emphasize the appearance and qualities of the public realm, the places created by buildings.

Form-based codes place a primary emphasis on building type, dimensions, parking location and façade features, and less emphasis on uses. They stress the appearance of the streetscape, or public realm, over long lists of different use types.

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Untapped Potential:Strategies for Revitalization and Reuse

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Neighborhood commercial corridors with a mix of uses and housing types. Thriving local businesses both new and old. These are the places that make a city distinct, provide hidden density, and cultivate diversity—and they are nearly impossible to encourage without the inclusion of older, smaller buildings…

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