One indication that zoning is not meeting objective outcomes may be the increasing number of variances. A Variance comes across as a special favour to a developer, business, or home owner. Better to create a framework with strategic intent.
Along the line in Nolan Grey’s “Arbitrary Lines” discussion of the perils in a zoning approach, ....read up on a reasonable alternative to Zoning — Form-based Coding.
There are reasonable alternatives to continuing to use the failing Zoning approach.
One indication that zoning is not meeting objective outcomes may be the increasing number of variances. A Variance comes across as a special favour to a developer, business, or home owner. Better to create a framework with strategic intent.
Along the line in Nolan Grey’s “Arbitrary Lines” discussion of the perils in a zoning approach, ....read up on a reasonable alternative to Zoning — Form-based Coding.
There are reasonable alternatives to continuing to use the failing Zoning approach.
https://formbasedcodes.org/definition/
So… how can we quickly move away from a zoning approach with the need for granting variances, to a more consistent and visible set of objectives?
It would take a little while, it would take public meetings to inform the public while also ensuring planning staff is on board.
…and by “ensuring planning staff is on board” you mean trained, understands the approach, capable of explaining a logic course of action?