Cofounder and CEO
Pattern Zones Co.
Matthew Petty is a selective practitioner driven to make an impact. He specializes in contemporary municipal best practices and his passion is helping cities manage for higher revenues and happier communities. Matthew is the creator of a novel technique cities can use to guide development called pattern zones that pre-approves high-quality infill buildings for local use. The program lowers barriers to small parcel development to make sprawl repair, appropriate infill, and main street commerce accessible to residents and builders.
Matthew has facilitated or consulted for municipalities or civic organizations in more than a dozen communities, including Overland Park, Memphis, South Bend, Orlando, Salt Lake City, Houston, and others. He was elected four times and served for almost 13 years as a Councilmember in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he sponsored new data-based processes within a placemaking framework in transportation and tourism budgets.
Matthew’s planning and design proposals have won grants from National Endowment for the Arts four times, the Knight Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, and others. Congress for the New Urbanism awarded his work national honors.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:15 PM CDT