Sustainable Development Code
Type
Policy Brief or Report
Year
2018
Level
City or Town, County, Other Boards and Agencies
State(s)
All States
Policy Areas
Community Development, Democracy & Governance, Energy, Environment & Natural Resources, Housing, Transportation & Mobility
The Sustainable Development Code offers best practices for community development to build resilient, environmentally conscious, economically secure, and socially equitable communities. Many development codes are decades old and not prepared to confront today’s changes, such as environmental changes like climate change and invasive species, economic changes like the sharing economy and autonomous vehicles, and societal changes like obesity, safety, and inequality. Through a rigorous editorial and interdisciplinary research process with law schools and practitioners from across the country in several disciplines, the SDC provides concrete ways for communities to amend development codes and adapt to changes as they occur. The SDC aims to help all local governments, regardless of size and budget, build more resilient, environmentally conscious, economically secure and socially equitable communities. SDC is comprised of three levels: subchapters, recommendations, and briefs. Here, we've produced an index of the subchapters available at https://sustainablecitycode.org/