Resources

The official code

Use these for anything that affects a real property.

• Chapter 19.09 Form-Based Code (PDF)The full code text, Version 2.0 Fremont East Update, published by the City of Las Vegas.
• Unified Development Code, online editionTitle 19 as currently amended, searchable, including Chapter 19.09.
• City of Las Vegas zoning code pageThe city's entry point for zoning rules, maps and contacts.

The plans behind it

The code exists to carry out these plans.

• Master and special area plans archiveThe city's archive of adopted plans, including the Vision 2045 Downtown Las Vegas Masterplan adopted in June 2016.
• Vision 2045 Downtown Las Vegas Masterplan (full document)A readable online copy of the 355-page plan that defines downtown's 12 districts.
• The Hundred Plan (PDF)UNLV Downtown Design Center's plan for the Historic Westside, the basis for that district's code.
• Arts District PlanThe city's page for planning work in the 18b Las Vegas Arts District.

City reports

• FY2019 Planning Annual Report (PDF)Covers the code's adoption and the Fremont East phase.
• 2021 Planning Annual Report (PDF)Covers the Historic Westside adoption and the start of the Arts District work.

Learning about form-based codes

• Form-Based Codes InstituteThe nonprofit that defines and teaches form-based coding. It ran the 2017 workshops in Las Vegas.
• Center for Applied Transect StudiesResearch and tools on the rural-to-urban transect the Las Vegas code is built on.

Coverage of the Las Vegas code

• The Western Planner: "Downtown Las Vegas Form-Based Code: A Nevada First"How Lisa Wise Consulting structured Chapter 19.09 (2019).
• CNU Public Square: "Las Vegas establishes form-based coding in Nevada"The Congress for the New Urbanism on the pilot and the plans for other districts (2019).
• Smart Growth America: "Downtown Las Vegas: The legend reinvented"Downtown's revival and the role of the new code.