Clarion Associates has been retained to prepare a new unified development ordinance (UDO) for Fayetteville, a city of 174,000 that is home to Fort Bragg, one of the world’s largest military complexes and a major influence on the city’s growth and development. Besides modernizing zoning districts and uses, streamlining development review, and making regulations user-friendly, the UDO will focus on improving
open space and landscaping standards to “green” the community, using cutting edge tools to promote sustainable development practices, adding design standards to improve development quality, and revising downtown zoning and development standards to encourage mixed uses, public space, attractive urban design, and pedestrian accessibility.