Kick the Tires on Your Zoning Code

Understanding your local zoning code is crucial to understanding why the suburban development model is harming our cities and—most importantly—how to shift toward a Strong Towns approach to development. If you want to see human-scale neighborhoods where small businesses can thrive and incremental developers can get to work, your zoning code will probably need to change. And the first step to seeing what needs to change is digging into the existing code.

Follow this step-by-step guide to break down and understand your zoning code.