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Adoptions, kickoffs, talks, and what we're thinking about, drawn from the team's posts on LinkedIn. Press coverage of ZoneCo projects is below.
Sean Suder and Danville Planning Director Renee Burton presented CODE Danville at the APA Virginia conference in Danville. ZoneCo rewrote the city's zoning code in under twelve months and under budget to implement PLAN Danville.
Powell City Council adopted a new zoning code with ZoneCo as lead consultant. The growing Columbus suburb can now grow with confidence, within a vision for a strong walkable center and context-sensitive development.
ZoneCo said goodbye to summer co-ops Aidyn Kinney and Jackson Hannah. Like all of our co-ops from the University of Cincinnati's DAAP, they were an excellent addition to the team.
After extensive engagement and strategic thinking, Rockville adopted a modern, clear, consistent, user-friendly, equitable, and defensible zoning ordinance. ZoneCo worked on the rewrite with City staff, led by Project Manager Holly Simmons.
New York spent years documenting real conditions before drafting the 1916 ordinance. Then the template got copied. A century later, most American zoning codes are inherited, not designed. An inherited code doesn't need defending or demolishing. It needs a diagnosis. That's where every ZoneCo engagement starts.
The planners who created zoning were building cities. We are now their stewards. The question for our day is what role zoning plays in the period of city maintenance and redevelopment.
Sean Suder will present his paper on how the 1916 New York City Zoning Ordinance shaped communities across America at the 21st National Conference on Planning History, October 15-18, 2026, at the University of Cincinnati.
The City of Oberlin adopted a new zoning code and map, replacing the code it had used since 1965. Another American city modernizing its zoning to remove barriers to its vision.
ZoneCo kicked off the zoning code rewrite for Webster Groves, a St. Louis inner-ring suburb. We love the 1920s suburbs and enjoy helping them strip away their 1950s-80s zoning to get back to fundamentals.
Sean Suder is again ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA for Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use, one of eight in Ohio and the only attorney in Southwest Ohio. Suder, LLC is a Chambers Spotlight firm for real estate in Ohio.
ZoneCo exhibited at NPC26 in Detroit, April 25-28. Sean Suder delivered the Bettman Lecture on 100 years of Euclid v. Ambler, and Sean, Todd Kinskey, and Jocelyn Gibson presented sessions. Visitors to the booth played the Zoning Dates Game.
ZoneCo kicked off the zoning code rewrite for Glen Ellyn, a Chicago suburb undertaking its first comprehensive rewrite since 1989.
The fifth "Heights" ZoneCo has worked in, alongside Shaker Heights, University Heights, Cleveland Heights, and Garfield Heights.
The City of Garfield Heights finalized its new zoning code, another Northeast Ohio code project wrapping up. Thanks to project partner OHM Advisors.
ZoneCo kicked off the Centerville zoning code rewrite with historic preservation partners Gray & Pape. The Southwest Ohio suburb is home to Ohio's largest collection of stone buildings.
ZoneCo kicked off the Cleveland Heights zoning code rewrite with partners OHM Advisors, City Architecture, and Urban3. Cleveland Heights has a dozen business districts, housing of every type, and Ohio's first enclosed mall, Severance Town Center.
Danville adopted a new zoning code implementing its award-winning comprehensive plan. Cardinal News covered how the code sets guidelines for the city's growth, including transitional housing.
Housing costs as a share of income determine what people can spend on everything else. Zoning can bring costs down: reduce regulatory barriers to building housing, eliminate artificial constraints on supply, calibrate zoning to demand, and reform approval processes.
Voters have made it clear that housing costs are untenable. The mandate is affordability. The real work is in the details.
Jocelyn attended the Sustainable Urban Design Summit at NewLab Detroit for a second year. ZoneCo is committed to staying abreast of the role land use regulation plays in sustainable development.
Springfield City Council adopted a new zoning code addressing housing and adaptive reuse. ZoneCo was lead consultant with partners Urban Fast Forward and CUDA Studio.
Four years in, and proud of what we've built.
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