Raleigh, NC: Small Scale Development Workshop

Friday, November 20, 2026
8:30 AM 5:00 PM 08:30 17:00

Exact Location TBD Raleigh, NC, 27601 United States (map)

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We'd like to personally invite you to join us for the Incremental Development Alliance's Small Scale Development Workshop, coming to Raleigh, NC on Friday, November 20, 2026 at 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM. This event is open to anyone, but especially aimed at attendees of the 2026 YIMBYtown conference. (A special discount is available to YIMBYtown attendees. Contact rquednau@incrementaldevelopment.org if you need the code.)

This workshop is for anyone who want to develop small-scale, financially viable real estate projects that strengthen their communities—or support those looking to do that work. Whether you're a first-time builder, a neighborhood leader, or a city staffer looking to help local development thrive in your city, our training will give you the tools to take action. This training is all about project formation. Expect to be taken through the steps from a neighborhood-based developer’s perspective and learn what it takes to:

analyze what makes a good project
understand how a building makes money
interact with the broader ecosystem of professionals in the built environment.

By the end of the Workshop, aspiring developers will feel more prepared to take the first steps on their own project and other neighborhood stakeholders will gain a deeper understanding of how they can support them.The registration fee covers a full day of training with national experts, peer learning, practical development tools, and a clearer understanding of one of the most important issues facing our nation.

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REGISTRATION
Early Bird Registration Rate ($150) - open through October 31, 2026
Regular Registration Rate ($170) - open through November 15, 2026
Last Minute Registration Rate ($190) - open through November 20, 2026

Members receive a 20% discount for this workshop! See the IncDev Membership portal for details. Not a Member yet? Join today.

SCHOLARSHIPS

The Scholarship application window is open through October 31. Apply for a scholarship here.

About the Presenters

Faculty

Eric Kronberg

Eric Kronberg is a zoning whisperer. He specializes in balancing and blending the often competing needs of urban design, architecture, and development in a potent cocktail for better places. He specializes in breaking down and demystifying regulations to find ways to make great projects possible while helping others navigate the redevelopment maze. He uses his skills for the force of good as a principal at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects (KUA), leading the firm’s skilled practitioners to help our development partners create better places for all.

Areas of expertise: zoning, architecture, policy, pre-approved plans, adaptive reuse

Faculty

Ivy Vann, AICP CNU-A

Ivy is a planner and designer with many years of experience in town planning both in New Hampshire and nationally. She works on charrettes, planning projects, code review, master planning, public engagement, and comprehensive planning. Ivy is certified as a planner by both the American Planning Association and the Congress for the New Urbanism.

She is a 42-year resident of New Hampshire, and served on her own town’s planning board for more than a dozen years, providing her an up-close look at the process for improving zoning regulations to increase housing choice. She particularly enjoys helping citizens articulate their vision for their place.

Ivy is a member of the Incremental Development Alliance team working on Phase Two of the Vermont Homes for All Toolkit. She is a faculty member for IncDev, where she teaches would-be developers the ins and outs of such topics as good design standards, understanding the finances of building, and how to understand both building codes and zoning codes.

Ivy has worked on housing needs assessments, code audits, and regulatory revisions for a number of New Hampshire towns including Dublin, Lebanon, Winchester, and Newmarket most recently. For the Town of Newmarket Ivy wrote a completely new form-based code for the Main Street and adjacent neighborhoods; the town has begun the shift to a totally form-based code in the entire town, a project Ivy is currently spearheading.

In her own life she is a small developer, having turned her house into a three family, and the original carriage house into a duplex. She currently has a 14-unit project which just completed the entitlement process. This experience has shaped her understanding that zoning codes have to work within the economic framework of their place: if the buildings allowed by the code are not financially viable they will never be built, no matter how much the townspeople wish they would appear.

Areas of expertise: zoning, very small projects, historic buildings, working with elected officials, property management

Faculty

Elizabeth Ward Williams

Elizabeth is an architect and city planner, with master’s degrees from Georgia Tech in both fields. She leads urban design and thought leadership efforts at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects, with her varied background allowing her to wear many hats throughout the design and planning processes. With a talent for graphic communication and big-picture thinking, Elizabeth enjoys developing links between design, research, policy and education. Additionally, Elizabeth serves on Atlanta’s Tree Conservation Commission and her neighborhood planning board.

Areas of expertise: design, policy and zoning, site planning, pre-approved plans, property management

Faculty

Alli Thurmond Quinlan, Executive Director

Alli Thurmond Quinlan is an architect, landscape architect, and small infill developer. She founded and runs Range Co (a multi-disciplinary design practice) and Flintlock Development (an urban infill real estate development company) in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She also served on the Fayetteville Planning Commission and the Construction Board of Appeals, as well as being known to occasionally teach urban design with a focus on advanced grading and stormwater in the Landscape Architecture Department of the Fay Jones School of Design at the University of Arkansas.

Alli grew up on a large working cattle ranch in western Oklahoma and believes strongly in being hands-on in your farm. She believes that small developers have the potential to be advocates for their neighborhoods, leading the redevelopment of communities in a way that protect and include long time residents while welcoming new, diverse neighbors. As part of this approach, she recently completed a tactical urbanism project to make walking to the community center easier for neighborhood kids, located nearby to Flintlock Development’s South Street Cottages.

Working as in a range of roles (architect, land planner, owner, developer, and city administrator) over a wide variety of development projects has taught Alli to cut through the voodoo of pro formas and zoning / building code to create beautiful, lovable, walkable projects that make sense for communities and make money for investors. Her work solo and with the University of Arkansas Community Design Center has been honored with national and international awards from the Congress for New Urbanism, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, Architizer, and the American Planning Association.

Areas of expertise: architecture, landscape architecture, infill, design, pro formas, zoning, pre-approved plans

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Raleigh, NC: Small Scale Development Workshop

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