On October 26, Clarion Director Don Elliott was a keynote lunch speaker at the Utah Land Use Institute annual conference in Sandy Utah. Don’s presentation on Reinventing Zoning for the 21st Century began with a review of the long, strange journey of zoning since 1916 – beginning with pure versions of Euclidean zoning and then

by Sarah R. Davis, as published in the August 2016 edition of Colorado Municipalities As communities search for creative and innovative ways to address challenges arising from Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL), climate change, natural hazard potential, stormwater management, and local economic vitality, urban agriculture is emerging as a potential land use game changer. So, what exactly is urban agriculture? As with most land use categories, urban

In late 2015, Clarion Associates was retained by the Keystone Policy Center to prepare a background paper on land use and water conservation. The paper reviewed existing research on how regulation of land use development patterns before initial occupancy of new development can affect long-term water conservation, and what programs local governments have adopted to

by Michael Kavalar, as published in the July 2016 edition of Planning Magazine. The streets of Rio de Janeiro are a lesson in abundance. People abound. Buildings abound. Slow-gliding flocks of seagulls float overhead, pterodactyl-like. So do great bureaucratic profusions of color—the trash collector’s blue jumper, the utility worker’s orange vest, the gray of the municipal guard. Even the