ABSTRACT
The City of Phoenix has recently become one of the largest cities in the United States to enact citywide design review. This paper examines the events leading up to the enactment and explains the procedural mechanisms used to implement the process. The format for the design review procedures turns on a hierarchy of individual guidelines called "requirements", "presumptions", and "considerations". These terms are used to communicate the relative importance of the individual guidelines and to hopefully make the process relatively objective and predictable.
