Clarion’s own Chris Duerksen was recognized at the APA-CO fall conference in Telluride for his years of leadership and his ongoing commitment to Colorado communities. Congratulations Chris!

Our work as community planners and plan implementers often requires a focus on details that draws us so deep in the trenches that we can lose focus on the larger forces shaping our nation and the world. To counter this trend, the 2017 Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute sponsored a lunchtime plenary session on “The

Working for the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), Clarion Associates recently led a team of experts to prepare the Planning for Hazards: Land Use Solutions for Colorado, a guide for communities looking to assess their local risk to hazards and implement various land use planning tools to mitigate such risk. Led by Clarion’s Matt

As Clarion Associates authors documented in our 2012 report on The Rules That Shape Urban Form (APA PAS #570), the use of form-based zoning controls is growing – but in myriad different ways, and almost always through integration into “hybrid” zoning ordinance that retain very significant land use controls.  Hybrid form-and-use based zoning has become