Clarion Associates continues its extensive work to draft a new Integrated Development Code for Albuquerque, New Mexico. And the job is over halfway finished!  This Monday and Tuesday, Don Elliott and Tareq Wafie conducted three public meetings and two stakeholder meetings to present the draft Development Standards and the city’s new and simpler approach to

Clarion Associates’ Free Webinar Series presents: The Sharing Economy Boom – How Collaborative Consumption is Changing Planning and Zoning. While the media is awash with entertaining stories of how the Sharing Economy is changing our lives, there has been relatively little discussion about how community planning and zoning regulations need to evolve to reflect those

Regensburg, Germany! Don Elliott was recently awarded an Erasmus Mundus fellowship to present a short course on Sustainable Local Development at the University of Regensburg in Germany. The 18 class members are all candidates for a European Union sponsored Master’s Degree in Local Development – and they come from everywhere.  Three Bangladeshis, three Ethiopians, two

Clarion Associates is celebrating Tareq Wafaie and Matt Goebel’s successful completion of Planning for Hazards: Land Use Solutions for Colorado for the Colorado Department of Local Affairs (DOLA), which received great reviews on the Land Use Prof Blog, calling it “one of the best new tools out there for thinking through planning for natural hazards and resilience issues.”