Asheville, North Carolina

HAYWOOD ROAD FORM-BASED CODE

Challenge: Keep the existing character and historic fabric while encouraging compatible infill. Prepare new regulations that ensure high-quality spaces defined by a variety of building types and uses.

Outcome:

  • A form-based code that ensures appropriate residential transitions, promotes shared parking and reflects the walkable scale of the neighborhood commercial corridor.
  • Placemaking approach to new development.
  • Coded for built form that supports pedestrians, cyclists and transit.

Year adopted: 2014

Team:
Code Studio (Lead)
Third Coast Design Studio
Nelson\Nygaard
Noell Consulting Group