About this site

This is an independent, plain-English guide to the Las Vegas form-based code and the downtown districts it covers.

Not the City of Las Vegas

From 2017 to 2022 this domain hosted the City of Las Vegas planning department's own project site for the form-based code, with meeting notices, drafts and comment tools. The city stopped using it, and the domain has since changed hands. The site you are reading is not affiliated with, run by or endorsed by the City of Las Vegas, and nothing here is official guidance.

If you need to know how the code affects a particular property, read the official Chapter 19.09 text and check with the city through its zoning code page.

How the content is put together

The explanations here summarise the code text and the plans behind it. The history comes from the city's own public updates published on this domain between 2017 and 2022, its planning annual reports and press coverage. Every page lists its sources. Where we couldn't confirm something, such as the final outcome of the Arts District rezoning, the page says so rather than guessing.

We don't reproduce the city's photos, logos or documents. The diagrams are our own simplified drawings.

Last reviewed

The content was last checked against its sources in November 2026.