Opticos Tops Riverside Smart Code Consultant Team Rankings

Opticos Design is excited to work with the City of Riverside, CA, on its upcoming Smart Code Specific Plan. The city announced this week that Opticos has topped the consultant selection process rankings for the project. Opticos Principal Stefan Pellegrini ...

APA Excellence Awards Recognition for Cincinnati

Plan Cincinnati: A Comprehensive Plan for the Future, Cincinnati, Ohio 2014 Daniel Burnham Award for a Comprehensive Plan Congratulations to our client, The City of Cincinnati Planning and Building Department for leading this award-winning project! The American Planning Association recently ...

Westwood Set to Become Fourth Cincinnati Neighborhood to Adopt FBC

The Westwood Coalition hopes that Cincinnati’s Form-Based Code will help to revitalize the neighborhood’s historic business district. On Dec. 13, the Cincinnati Planning Commission unanimously approved a recommendation to adopt the city’s FBC in a portion of the neighborhood. The ...

Chicago Planning Agency Releases Guide to FBCs

Is your neighborhood, community, or city considering a Form-Based Code? Maybe you think you already have one? The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning recently released a simple, little handbook to help communities and individuals understand what Form-Based Codes are, and ...

How Form-Based Codes Can Make Neighborhoods Great

Opticos Design has partnered with the Project for Public Spaces and the City of Omaha, Nebraska, to host an educational Form-Based Code workshop in the city’s Benson neighborhood. The public workshop will discuss how Omaha neighborhoods can use FBCs to ...