Every Building Builds a City: Form Based Code with Karen Hundt

This past summer the Chattanooga City Council passed a document that will literally shape our city's future, the new Form Based Code. Breaking away from a coding system that was created in the 1950s to support the development of suburbs, the new Form Based Code is the result of community vision for more than a decade. In the Downtown Plan of 2005 and the City Center Plan of 2013 we dreamed about the future of our city. Now we have the code in place to make it a reality. Karen Hundt of the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency joins us to talk about the process, vision, and details of this new coding system.

Referenced in this episode:

• Downtown Chattanooga Form Based Code (the actual, massive document) - http://bit.ly/2d3CKNd


• CHA-FBC Website - http://bit.ly/2dcf0qC


• Placemakers - this link is the one Karen mentions where you can find other cities who have adopted similar Form Based Codes - http://bit.ly/2cz86L6


• Regional Planning Agency - http://bit.ly/2cEaTYW


• 2013 City Center Plan - http://bit.ly/2bSvVj3


• 2005 Downtown Plan - http://bit.ly/2ckZNGQ