Table of Contents

Hazard Mitigation

This guide to drafting sustainable development regulations includes a chapter on natural hazards. It discusses regulatory strategies for floodplain and river corridor land use, wildfire hazards and the wildland-urban interface, coastal hazards, steep slope hazards, and hazard mitigation and resiliency.

Home Occupations

This guide to drafting sustainable development regulations includes a section on Live-Work Units. It discusses live-work as a spectrum ranging from home occupations, where the household living is clearly the principal use, to work-live units, where working is clearly the principal use.

Housing Supply Planning

This guide to drafting sustainable development regulations includes a chapter on community that covers housing affordability, housing diversity, and social justice. It discusses regulatory strategies for removing code barriers, creating incentives, and filling regulatory gaps.

Solar Energy

This guide to drafting sustainable development regulations includes a chapter on solar energy. It discusses regulatory strategies for removing code barriers, creating incentives, and filling regulatory gaps.

Urban Agriculture  |  Food Systems

This guide provides information to help support agricultural activities in urban settings. Chapter 6.2 addresses food security and sovereignty, and some of the actions included are: 

• Permit a Broad Range of Urban and Suburban Agricultural Uses By-Right; and 

• Community Gardens on Private Property as a By-Right or Permitted Use. 

These actions present an overview of the topic, examples of the activity in several cities, and regulations in different jurisdictions.

Wildland-Urban Interface

This guide to drafting sustainable development regulations includes a chapter on wildfire hazards and the wildland-urban interface. It discusses regulatory strategies for removing code barriers, creating incentives, and filling regulatory gaps.

Wind Energy

This guide to drafting sustainable development regulations includes a chapter on wind energy. It discusses regulatory strategies for removing code barriers, creating incentives, and filling regulatory gaps.

Zoning Reform and Code Writing

This guide covers a wide range of potential land-use and development code reforms to incorporate various sustainability principles. Individual sections address environmental health and natural resources, natural hazards, land use and community character, mobility and transportation, community, healthy neighborhoods and food security, and energy.