ABSTRACT
Despite the achievement of a citizen consensus on design review guidelines, municipalities often fmd that these aesthetic controls have little effect in bringing about the quality urbanism originally sought. At the root of the cause is a failure: 1) to put forward a "vision" of the community that can be communicated to those who will sit in judgment, the citizens; 2) to distinguish between architectural and urbanistic criteria; and 3) to offer reasonable and acceptable models to land owners and developers. Thus, in addition to design review guidelines towns and cities need a model for achieving the consensus, communicating the nature of the consensus achieved and, ultimately, educating the design reviewers and developers. This paper proposes such a model.
