SmartCodes adopted

The transect-based, form-based Miami 21 zoning ordinance was adopted by the Miami City Commission on a 4-1 vote October 22 (see reports in the September and October-November issues of New Urban News). It will take effect in February. Miami is the second municipality (after Pass Christian, Mississippi) to adopt a calibrated SmartCode over its full jurisdiction, and the first major city to do so. The lead consultant was Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company. At the same hour Miami 21 was passed, the Town Council of the small island village of Jamestown, Rhode Island, approved its new zoning ordinance based on the SmartCode, on a 5-0 vote.  The 2007 charrette was led by Donald Powers Architects of Providence, RI.