Former Director of Development Services Thomas Deller, now resigned and despite his sins, must also be given credit. He first recognized the crying need for modernization, secured the Connecticut Department of Transportation grant that funded the rezoning (in the name of transit-oriented development), and hired the consultant Leslie Oberholtzer of the Chicago firm CodaMetrics, an expert in form-based codes, who walked and recorded the city, parcel-by-parcel, for more than two years, developed the building form and siting requirements that are the backbone of the plan, and produced the format and graphics that make it a glorious modern replacement for the inscrutable Euclidean zoning first applied to Hartford in the 1920s in the name of progress.