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Technical Challenge to Sustainability: The primary goal for this project is to initiate a unique process to begin the task of redesigning the municipal zoning ordinances for the Borough of Dormont, Pennsylvania. This process will utilize conventional planning practices as well as some innovated practices that integrate landscape, social capital, and sustainability concepts for redefining zoning ordinances associated with urbanized areas. The project will utilize the existing zoning groundwork set by the Borough to promote sustainability and development by encouraging the use of “green building”, increasing community connections, civic involvement, maintaining historic preservation, and eliminating such zoning restrictions to better suit the needs of a built urban environment.

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The research team will develop an initial process concerning how to transform the existing zoning ordinances into a more understandable, streamlined, defensible and effective plan implementation tool. The research team will compile background data including historic structures, demographics, economics, cultural, social capital, and physical resources for making recommendations to the current zoning ordinances. The research team will then identify aspects of the current zoning and construction ordinances that would deter sustainable development or revitalization. The research team will then provide effective principles for revising and updating city zoning ordinances. The team will prepare solutions for specific ordinance problems as well as evaluate and provide recommendations with specific reference to Dormont’s social capital as it relates to physical locations.

The research team will develop an initial process concerning how to transform the existing zoning ordinances into a more understandable, streamlined, defensible and effective plan implementation tool. The research team will compile background data including historic structures, demographics, economics, cultural, social capital, and physical resources for making recommendations to the current zoning ordinances. The research team will then identify aspects of the current zoning and construction ordinances that would deter sustainable development or revitalization. The research team will then provide effective principles for revising and updating city zoning ordinances. The team will prepare solutions for specific ordinance problems as well as evaluate and provide recommendations with specific reference to Dormont’s social capital as it relates to physical locations.

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