Trident Realtors association offering workshop on form-based codes

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The Charleston Trident Association of Realtors will offer workshops to explore the use of new land development strategy that centers on form rather than use. The workshops run between Sept. 22 and Sept. 24.

 

Staff report
Published Sept. 22, 2009

The Charleston Trident Association of Realtors will offer workshops to explore the use of form-based codes, a land development strategy that centers on form rather than use.

Placemakers, a national planning firm that specializes in form-based codes, is coming to Charleston for three days of education and exploration of whether the strategy of form-based codes will help build better communities.

At each free information seminar, Placemakers will explain what form-based codes are, and where they fit in to overall economic development and placemaking efforts.  They will also specifically address how form-based codes relate to issues pertaining to growth management, density, private property rights and preservation of the natural beauty of a region.

“This is an opportunity for stakeholders, community leaders and the public to learn more about form-based codes,” said Ryan Castle, CTAR’s Government Affairs Director.

Three public workshops will be held next week throughout the region:

· 6 p.m. today at Mount Pleasant Town Council Chambers, 100 Ann Edwards Lane.

· 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Charleston County Library, 68 Calhoun Street.

· 6 p.m. on Thursday at Greater Summerville/Dorchester County Chamber of Commerce, 402 N. Main St., Summerville.