Every day we at Clarion act as experts for the communities we serve – answering questions, formulating plans or policy, or analyzing community data. It is also incredibly important to us to take the time to actively participate in our own community. On Sunday, April 9, the Chapel Hill office gave back by volunteering at

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

In this recent interview, Albuquerque Planning Director Suzanne Lubar, discusses the city’s approach to the challenge of bringing consistency and coherence to an unwieldy collection of planning and land use regulations.