About
This site started at the monthly civic hackathon of the Detroit Urban Tech Meetup.
The principal motivation is to build a friendly "front-end" to the Detroit zoning code; currently living as a very large PDF on the city's website.
FAQ
What's a zoning code?
Wikipedia says: Zoning is the process of dividing land in a municipality into zones (e.g. residential, industrial) in which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited.[1] In addition, the sizes, bulk, and placement of buildings may regulated.
How is this site built?
This is a Gatsby site which uses Airtable as a back-end for organizing the zoning data into a relational database.
How can I contribute to this site?
There's a couple ways to help! You can help fill out the Airtable base where we're trying to structure the zoning data into a spreadsheet format. (That's a read-only link; please contact Jimmy McBroom for an editor link.)
If you're interested in developing this site, take a look at the GitHub repository!. If you can't figure out where to get started, please feel free to open a new issue.