Dan Parolek and Karen Parolek, principals in Opticos

Dan Parolek and Karen Parolek, principals in Opticos Design in Berkeley, California, are co-authoring a book on form-based codes with Paul Crawford of Crawford Multari & Clark in San Luis Obispo. Wiley Press is to publish it in spring 2008. Three form-based codes produced by Opticos have been adopted this year — one in Grass Valley, California, a second covering downtown Benicia, California, and a third regulating a historic district within the Arsenal, a former military reservation in Benicia along Suisun Bay.