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.

Clarion Associates recently kicked off a rewrite of the Howard County, MD, development regulations, which have not undergone significant updates since the 1970s. The nearly three-year process will clarify, consolidate and revise regulations in an effort to modernize the county’s nearly 500-page zoning regulations and other manuals and documents that guide land use and development.

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

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