Custom zoning codes, written to advance your vision.

What a ZoneCo code looks like

A code should explain itself. Ours are organized in a logical structure with plain-language purpose statements, consolidated use tables, and graphics that explain height, frontage, and lot standards at a glance. Every approval is tied to objective criteria, decision-maker roles are defined, and timelines are published. Applicants know what they can build; staff know how to decide; boards know what findings they must make.

We partner with top planning, urban design, landscape architecture, and engineering firms to make codes that are visually appealing and easy to use, and our Regulatory Design Studio produces the illustrations.

What's inside

• Context-based districts calibrated to the community's real development patterns, using Development Pattern Districting
• Modernized use definitions and consolidated use tables
• Right-sized parking, with shared, off-site, and on-street credits
• A clear path for missing-middle housing, accessory dwelling units, and infill
• Administrative review tracks for predictable, low-impact proposals
• Content-neutral sign standards and tailored historic district standards
• Floodplain, tree, and stormwater provisions integrated with site design, with performance-based options
• A "how to use this code" section, process flowcharts, and standardized submittals

How we get there

Every rewrite starts with a zoning diagnostic and stakeholder interviews, so the community and the drafting team share one understanding of the problem before anyone drafts a word. Drafts move through public review in modules, with feedback cycles built into each milestone. When the code is adopted, implementation support is already in the scope: a transition memo, staff training, checklists, and a digital code format.

Subdivision regulations

Subdivision regulations shape streets, blocks, and lots for generations. We write clear, consistent, user-friendly, equitable, and defensible subdivision regulations that reflect the development patterns a community actually wants, whether on their own or as part of a unified development code.

• Wayne County, Ohio: subdivision regulations rewrite
• Wadsworth, Ohio: subdivision ordinance rewrite
• Litchfield, Connecticut: zoning and subdivision rewrite
• Bowling Green, Ohio: zoning and subdivision code rewrite

Land use-related ordinances

We also write standalone ordinances on the land-use questions that come up between rewrites:

• Property maintenance codes
• Delivery robot ordinances
• Food truck ordinances
• Outdoor dining ordinances
• Electric vehicle charging ordinances
• Short-term rental, urban agriculture, and accessory use provisions