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Bring Your Zoning Practices into the Digital Age

Is your zoning ordinance still housed in a binder or hosted online as a PDF?

It is time to leave that practice behind. The advanced technology powering the tools and features on the enCodePlus platform make the shift to digital easy and incredibly rewarding.

EFFICIENT

Streamline your work with collaborative drafting and editing tools, contemporary styling, consistent formatting, real-time web publishing, and complete integration of your zoning and land development regulations.

ENGAGING AND ACCESSIBLE

Publish ordinances, guidelines and manuals using a branded, intuitive interface that enables staff, citizens, public officials and other stakeholders to engage with them.

Because your regulatory documents are hosted in the cloud, users and collaborators can access them at any time and from any device or location.

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IN YOUR CONTROL

Maintain complete control of your ordinances, how they are presented, what revisions are made, and when they are published to the web.

SECURELY STORED

Archive and maintain your ordinances redundantly and securely in the cloud for simple search, retrieval and peace of mind.

Thoroughly modernize your zoning practices for ease and functionality with enCodePlus.

Application Management

Digital Zoning

Integrated GIS

Navigation Aids

Tools for Zoning Modernization

Public Engagement

Research Aids

There has never been a better time to digitize and integrate your zoning ordinance with advanced user tools.

Electronic. By digitizing your ordinances, linking them to related documents and resources, and publishing them online, you create a centralized hub for all planning and zoning information.
Streamlined. Powerful, but easy-to-use features simplify both management and administration of published documents, customized research and analytical tools, and other useful resources.
Accessible. Because everything is securely stored in the cloud, you can give users 24/7 access to a comprehensive library of documents, both current and archived.

Bring your zoning practices into the digital age today.

What do clients say?

enCodePlus has made our zoning work more manageable and adaptable. With the ease of use and the training provided, our zoning staff can easily keep track of interpretations to help us administer our code more consistently. We’re also able to denote needed updates using their digital platform. enCodePlus is helping us serve our customers well. I highly recommend this product and their services to other cities or counties.

— Christopher Myers - Preservation and Planning Specialist | Covington, KY

What are the unique benefits of modernizing your ordinances?

The intricate and data-driven nature of zoning practices is perfectly suited for the application of modern technological advancements. With enCodePlus, you’re empowered to harness industry-leading technology to transition your practices to the digital realm.

What does zoning modernization mean to you?

Improved Access

Traditionally, land use ordinances have not been easy to find and have been even more difficult to understand. Using enCodePlus tools, this is no longer the case. Make zoning easy (or at least, easier)!

Better Public Service

Help citizens find the information they’re looking for as easy and fast as possible. Save them an email, phone call or office visit by making information readily available on their phone, tablet or computer.

Technology Optimization

Implement enCodePlus’ tools and features in as little as 30 days. Display your ordinances in an online interactive format and use our lookup and navigation tools and one-click summaries to package information in an easy-to-understand format.

Innovative Leadership

Demonstrate to management and your elected officials the cost savings and undeniable benefits resulting from always up-to-date regulations, improved search and navigation, built-in development calculators, direct links to the zoning map, and printable and exportable summary reports. enCodePlus is a “must have” rather than a “nice to have”.

Life Simplification

Administering ordinances can consume an inordinate amount of time. Added staff, delays in response and long meetings usually result.

The structure, organization, format and presentation of ordinances impact how they’re read, interpreted and used by staff, development applicants, reviewers and residents.

Well-written, intuitively organized documents designed for the end user can streamline processes, shorten time frames and make for a pleasant experience.

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Over time, our ordinances become increasingly out-of-date and technology is quickly outdated. We muddle through and do the best we can with the tools available. Not optimal but understandable.

What if you could catch up and stay up to date with the leading technology and zoning and GIS tool? This is what’s possible when you modernize with EnCodePlus. A small investment today yield ten-fold time savings for years to come. It’s worth it!

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS EMBRACE NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGY

Project Showcase

See how local governments across the US are using enCodePlus to develop and manage projects in their own communities.

Covington, KY

Journey from Code Update to User-Friendly Code Portal

In 2019, the staff of Covington, Kentucky, partnered with enCodePlus’ sister company, Kendig Keast Collaborative, to update their Neighborhood Development Code (NDC). One of the goals of the update was to provide for the preservation of the unique development character of their city. enCodePlus staff created a custom-designed code drafting portal that permitted the NDC update to use a more modern form-based format showcasing the diversity of the city through multiple images and an eye-catching layout. During the review process, city…

Covington, KY

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Kenton County, KY

Kenton County’s Zoning Evolution: Managing Multiple Versions of a Base Code in enCodePlus

Kenton County, Kentucky is a unique client for enCodePlus with over 20 distinct sites contained within the overall County portal. These sites encompass 18 individual city Zoning Ordinances (including links to the City of Covington, which had an enCodePlus site prior to this County project) and three Zoning Ordinance and Regulations documents for the County as a whole. Each city in the County is undergoing the process of updating their Zoning Ordinances based on an outline referred to as the Z21 Blueprint…

Kenton County, KY

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Littleton, CO

The Littleton Project

Background Littleton’s historic downtown has done well to preserve its charm in spite of its overly permissive zoning ordinance. During development of their Unified Land Use Code, the zoning regulations for downtown were rewritten and their design guidelines were replaced with more definitive standards. The public eye was watching closely over this process to ensure the quality character was maintained and strengthen. The use of ArcGIS Urban was central to evaluating the effects of the proposed new regulations. Problem…

Littleton, CO

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Washington, DC

Commits to Zoning Regulation Transparency, Launches "Unofficial" Online Portal

Document versioning issues exacerbated by the increasing need for textual edits sent Washington, DC, planning staff in search of a more tailored solution for regulation management. DC partnered with enCodePlus (ECP) in the winter of 2019 to migrate Title 11, Zoning, into an interactive format that would allow staff to make proposed edits and submit them to the public/stakeholder for comments without all the versioning issues typically created by using MS Word files. Before using the ECP platform, the DC staff…

Washington, DC

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Des Moines, IA

Des Moines Revamps Zoning Ordinances with enCodePlus for a Modern and User-Friendly Online Experience

After years of manually updating their Zoning Ordinance and Planning and Design Ordinance in InDesign and then exporting the updates to PDFs for citizens to view online, the staff of Des Moines, Iowa, knew there must be a better way. Many solutions for online ordinance presentations were not suitable for the two- column layout used in the documents. Staff placed a high priority on maintaining the original appearance of the city’s zoning documents and were not willing to compromise…

Des Moines, IA

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Copperas Cove, TX

Copperas Cove Updates Code and Creates a Visually-Appealing Portal with enCodePlus

Copperas Cove, TX’s Zoning Navigator takes its readers on a journey through the city’s newly adopted Zoning Ordinance, written in partnership with Kendig Keast Collaborative. From this landing page users can browse Zoning Ordinance chapters by topic, quickly find planning tools like Regulations by District, Quick Tables, and an interactive Zoning Map, and explore the additional planning documents included in the city’s enCodePlus portal. The city of Copperas Cove has a total of 10 documents fully built out…

Copperas Cove, TX

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Winter Park, CO

Sustainable Development Code Overhaul

Winter Park, Colorado, is a beautiful town in the Rocky Mountains that is home to just over 1,000 permanent residents and a high influx of visitors during peak vacation times. Residents and visitors alike love the natural mountain landscape, and when the town needed to update their Unified Development Code (UDC) in 2019, they made integrating development with the natural surroundings a key goal of the project. They then made the eco-friendly choice to partner with Kendig Keast Collaborative and enCodePlus, which…

Winter Park, CO

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Virginia DEQ, VA

Journey to an Interactive Stormwater Management Handbook

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) partnered with enCodePlus in 2023 to finalize and host their Stormwater Management Handbook. The Handbook was undergoing a major update involving a large team of collaborators, and the drafting tools available in enCodePlus’ CloudWriter would prove to be especially useful. Handbook editors are able to provide comments on specific portions of text and use track changes to draft new language that can be viewed in real time in one location without needing to keep…