From September 2022 to June 2023, Imagine Auburn stewarded the Auburn community to build a vision of the commercial core’s future to underpin the creation of a form-based code (FBC). The city tasked Imagine Auburn with two primary tasks: create strategies to increase housing opportunities and encourage infill development to maximize the limited buildable land inventory. The outreach process deeply examined these needs from a variety of viewpoints with the community. As a result, the community transformed these goals into a synergistic revitalization plan for the form-based code to embody, based upon a collective vision of Auburn’s future. In short, this vision is, “A more self-sustaining Auburn, where citizens feel connected to nature, historic charm, and each other.”