Planners and public officials promoting New Urbanism

Planners and public officials promoting New Urbanism sometimes struggle with defining it. DeKalb County, Georgia, commissioners recently passed a 90-day moratorium on applications for approval of traditional neighborhood developments (TNDs), a new zoning category there. At issue are developers who are ignoring the mixed-use component of the code, and yet taking advantage of higher densities allowed in TND zoning, according to an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Says one resident, who lives near the site for Antioch Village, a development proposed under the code: “TND is an excellent concept. It’s just that everybody wants to interpret it in their own way.”