The zoning code of Alamogordo, NM hasn't been revisited since April of 1950. Today, the zoning rewrite group is finally updating the code and making the switch to a form-based code in the process.
"[Alamogordo city planner Marc South] said the city is carefully moving toward form-based zoning as it is a much more complex system.
The biggest impediment to the process is that zoning should follow a comprehensive plan and not lead it, South said.
"But we are where we are, so we're picking up and running with it," South said."
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