Giving Back: Opticos Donates CNU Charter Award Money to Cincinnati Nonprofit Public Art Group

Earlier this year, Opticos Design was awarded the CNU’s Charter Award Grand Prize for Best Planning Tool for our work on the Cincinnati Form-Based Code. As we discussed what to do with the prize money, we decided the best thing ...

Tehachapi City Council Set To Adopt Groundbreaking Hybrid Zoning Code

Tehachapi, CA, will soon have a groundbreaking new citywide hybrid code. The first reading took place at the city council’s meeting on October 6, in which council members voted unanimously to adopt the code. Project leaders say the new code has been completely ...

Sustainability Takes Shape in Colorado

Jed Selby didn’t consider himself a land developer when he and his sister Katie Urban purchased some 42 acres on the banks of the Arkansas River in Buena Vista, CO, in 2003. The former pro kayaker envisioned a cozy town ...

Cincinnati Form-Based Code Earns Top Award at CNU22

The Cincinnati Form-Based Code led by Opticos was awarded the Grand Prize for Best Planning Tool or Process at the Congress for the New Urbanism’s 13th Annual Charter Awards in Buffalo, N.Y., held during CNU’s annual Congress, June 4 – 7. ...

Opticos Goes to School on Form-Based Codes

Tony Perez, Opticos Design’s Director of Form-Based Coding, has gone back to school this spring, teaching a graduate-level studio dedicated to Form-Based Coding at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, CA. While some universities invite guest lecturers to speak about ...