FORM BASED ZONING

FORM BASED ZONING

This new catchword describes an effort to stifle creative architectural efforts and insure that there is no change in the cookie cutter appearance of many city areas. Would we ever have known the Eiffel Tower or the Chartres Cathedral if form based zoning had been in effect? How about the Empire State building, or consider the pyramids in Egypt? The public interest does not lie in stifling architectural ingenuity and technical progress. Building a home or other building of a style different than that of its neighbors isn’t evil. We have lots of very inviting streets in Ann Arbor that have a rather random mix of architectural styles.