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neighborhoods or entire towns, form-based codes look to the scale, shape, scope and specific details of a particular development project. Also unlike Euclidean zoning codes, form-based codes are most often prescriptive rather than proscriptive or descriptive. Hence, form-based codes tell developers what they can and should build in fine detail rather than telling them what they cannot build or describing generally permitted uses. Because of the level of detail in such codes and the potential curtailment of rights that such codes may mean for property owners, a crucial aspect of the adoption of form- based code is community involvement. This involvement is carried out via the "charrette" process, a series of ineetings at which community members and other interested parties are invited to voice their desires for a particular type of proj ect. i� i� Charrette (sometimes spelled "charette") is an architectural term that refers to a collective workshop process undertaken by designers and planners to reach consensus on the design of a particular project and to sketch out the project's preliminary form. See Nat'1 Charrette Inst., What Is a Charrette?, http://www.charretteinstitute.or�/charrette.html (last visited November 13, 2006). The charrette has been increasingly used to encourage participation in urban development schemes and has been, states on commentator, a very deliberate part of the federal governments decentralization scheme in federally-sponsored urban development. Audrey G. McFarlane, When Inclusion Leads to Exclusion: The Uncharted Terrain of Community Participation in Economic Development, 66 Brooklyn L. Rev. 861, 863 (2000),In the context of form-based code, the charrette usually involves lay members of a community interested in or affected by a project as well as design and planning professionals. Benjamin E. Northrup & Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb, Country and City: The Common Vision of Agrarians and New Urbanists, in The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land 191, 198-199 (Norman Wirzba ed., 2004). It is said to have been conceived in the development of Seaside, Florida, one of the first acknowledged New Urban communities. Id. For a general discussion of the charrette in form-based code processes see Charles J. Kibert, Construction Ecology 238-239 (2002); Kenneth Hall & Gerald Porterf�ield, Community by Design: New Urbanism for Suburbs and Small Communities 51 (2000). See also Thomas L. Daniels, Holding Our Ground: Protecting America's Farms and Farmland 40 (1997).