About Oakland Park, Wilton Manors & Uptown

The Uptown Urban Village (Uptown) Project is a planning project derived from an August 2014 Urban Land Institute Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) report that identified strategies in creating a more livable urban village core for the Uptown area.  Uptown is generally described as the area in and around the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, with the area’s core flanked by C-14 canal and McNab Road to the north, 57th Street to the south, Powerline Road to the west, and I-95 to the east.   The overall intent is to establish a planning framework to guide future growth in the area by amending the current land use designations to a single land use designation that supports a mix of uses and multi-modal development.  The project goals also include the development of a form-based code to regulate the built form consistent with the new underlying land use thereby making the area a multi-modal, walkable, pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use, developed area. The Urban Design and Planning Division has been working with the consulting firm, Tindale Oliver, on an application for a land use amendment and a form-based code master plan for the City of Fort Lauderdale’s Uptown Urban Village.*

*Source: City of Fort Lauderdale