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b"This is our sixth dispatch from the Congress for the New Urbanism\\xa0(CNU), which took place in Savannah, Georgia in May. Chuck Marohn attended CNU and hosted a series of in-depth podcast conversations about some of the most pressing topics for cities today, with leaders, thinkers, and activists in a whole range of fields. Now we're bringing those podcasts to your ears throughout the summer.\\nIn this episode,\\xa0Susan Henderson (principal and director of design at Placemakers), Hazel Borys (principal and managing director at Placemakers), and Marina Khoury (architect and a partner at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company) discuss the challenges of engaging with client communities for the successful implementation of New Urbanist innovations such as form-based zoning codes.\\nQuestions discussed in this podcast include:\\n\\xa0\\nHow do you go about engaging with communities around a vision, so that when you get to the stage of implementing policy, you\\u2019re confident that you\\u2019ve got the vision right?\\nAre we doing visioning well when it comes to New Urbanist ideas, and getting the communities we work in on board with those ideas?\\nHow do you get a more representative cross-section of the community engaged in the planning process?\\nHow is public engagement different in affluent communities versus those facing more socioeconomic challenges?\\nWhat are the cues, when you walk in the door, that tell you whether a place is going to be receptive to change?\\nHow do you deal with local staff that have limited capacity or interest in working with you?\\nHow do you overcome an internal roadblock, when your proposal gets to that one person in the bureaucracy who can derail it?\\nHow do you start the conversation with elected officials who aren\\u2019t receptive to your ideas?\\nHow do you deal with things that are outside the scope of what you can solve?\\nZoning has come in for a lot of criticism lately from multiple corners of society. How can zoning be a tool for constructive change?\\nWhy is the change from a use-based code to a form-based code such a dramatic shift?\\nWhat are the highest priority changes you urge client communities to implement?\\nDo you prefer to do full citywide code rewrites, or improve a city\\u2019s zoning code through more incremental steps?\\nHow do you deal with the backlash to a policy that has been too successful and resulted in changes that spur community opposition?\\nHow would you respond to the critique that you can\\u2019t legislate quality development or architecture?\\nHow is capacity building part of what you do, beyond a normal consultant relationship?\\nWhat do you do to share the lessons you\\u2019ve learned?"