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Multistudio collaborated with the City of Springfield, MO, and its residents to create a new Land Development Code Update that implements the community’s existing comprehensive plan, "Forward SGF."
The new code introduced zoning guidelines to support the community’s goals for their city’s future, with a focus on revitalization, place-based development, and sustainable infill opportunities. Engaging with the context-based “Place Types” defined by Forward SGF, the new code prioritizes an overarching “Quality of Place” across future developments.
The team engaged residents from a range of Place Types to shape design and development standards for the city's contexts, including neighborhoods, corridors, commercial areas, and employment districts.
The process captured a range of perspectives and lived experiences, with feedback directly informing the standards and design elements in the Land Development Code Update.
The new code will shift the city toward context-based zoning requirements. Modernized standards ensure new investments respond to their surroundings, maintaining the form and character of existing Place Types.
Streamlined zoning districts and building-type standards create clear, predictable regulations. A flexible approach is built into the code, allowing for occasional modifications while maintaining consistency with the community’s overarching design objectives.
Improved navigation and usability are central to the new code, achieved through a unified structure that consolidates subdivision regulations, zoning ordinances, and approval processes into a single, cohesive chapter. It also formalizes review procedures, resulting in a more coordinated, streamlined, and transparent process for the Springfield community.
Finally, the new code is complemented by a step-by-step handbook designed to guide the Springfield community through the code implementation and review process.
