Downtown Ann Arbor is about to experience change: the City Council is poised to adopt the first major zoning changes to downtown Ann Arbor since 1966. Ms. Rampson will review the history of downtown planning and zoning in Ann Arbor and provide an overview of the draft zoning and parking amendments recently recommended by the Planning Commission.

These zoning changes seek to implement the community vision for downtown developed in 2006 with the assistance of Calthorpe and Associates. Better known as the Ann Arbor Discovering Downtown (A2D2) initiative, this implementation effort has been guided by citizen advisory committees and the City Planning Commission since early 2007.