Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty is a frequent collaborator with Blockwright through Pattern Zones Co, which he and Matthew Hoffman co-founded.

Petty designs and builds tools that help towns and cities solve big challenges, like housing. He has been pioneering pre-approved building programs for ten years. Petty has facilitated or consulted for municipalities and civic organizations in more than two dozen communities, including Memphis, Orlando, Salt Lake City, and Houston. For the Incremental Development Alliance, he designed the code stress-testing process that kicked off meaningful infill reforms in South Bend, Kalamazoo, and Overland Park — all three of which now have pre-approved building programs. He has delivered housing infill workshops across the country and authored a ground-up curriculum rewrite that has anchored the organization’s programming for nearly a decade.

In Fayetteville, Arkansas, Petty was elected four times and served nearly 13 years on the City Council, where he recruited a team of champions and authored legislation on accessory dwelling units, pocket neighborhoods, food trucks, and traffic calming. He also developed 495 West Prairie Street, a nine-unit mixed-use walkup in downtown Fayetteville, managing the project from concept through construction and leasing. Petty’s planning and design proposals have won grants or awards from the National Endowment for the Arts four times, the Knight Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Congress for the New Urbanism, and others.

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