The Benefits of Form Based Code

The Shelburne FBC would:

(1) Be based on a specific community vision developed at a series of public meetings by voters and residents INCLUDING YOU!

(2) Foster a dynamic commercial real estate market by giving property owners flexibility to adapt their sites and buildings to new circumstances, such as changes in use and tenants that are a normal part of the business cycle.

(3) Generate better development outcomes in a timely and cost-efficient manner because everyone – town staff, citizen, developer - knows what’s expected at the outset of the building process.

(4) Produce a stable investment environment by providing a predictable, clear, and timely development review process, that yields coherent and desirable outcomes.

(4) Capitalize on Shelburne’s unique and unrealized potential for tourism, capture business from daily through traffic, and meet demand for local and visitor services.

(5) Help us achieve the “mix of walkable and sustainable development in the Route 7 corridor” called for in Shelburne’s Town Plan.

(6) Create housing opportunities that bring younger people, who tend to prefer walkable and transit oriented communities, to live in Shelburne.