Camiros worked with the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning to develop an Arts & Culture Toolkit for municipalities within the Chicago region. The toolkit is designed to help planners and municipalities develop strategies and techniques for attracting and accommodating arts and culture within their communities, an important component in increasing attractiveness, livability, and quality of life.
The toolkit provides detailed information on a variety of arts and culture uses, as well as information regarding their primary needs and potential secondary impacts. It also details implementation steps that can be taken by communities, broken down into four main components: preparation, participation and input, assessment, and regulatory implementation.
Not designed to be a shelf document, the toolkit provides model regulatory language that can be adapted by municipalities to define allowed arts and culture activities within a zoning district, standards for uses to mitigate impacts, provisions to allow and encourage the adaptive reuse of existing structures, and guidance for communities interested in creating an arts district.
The toolkit also includes case studies from communities both within the region and around the country highlighting policy goals and regulatory strategies, and appendices linking to additional resources that communities may find helpful on specific topics such as pop-up installations and public art.
View the toolkit here.
