The MZA team

The Michigan Association of Planning (MAP) is the organizational entity for the Michigan Zoning Atlas. MAP is a statewide leader in planning policy that serves a membership of planners, local officials, and land-use decision maker. Executive director Andrea Brown and project manager Leah DuMouchel have published a Zoning Reform Toolkit: 15 Tools to Expand Housing Choice and Supply and a companion guide, Zoning Reform Stories and Studies. The Zoning Atlas data supports the implementation of these tools and can help match communities with specific, effective applications of the tools.

The University of Michigan provides Atlas training and education, led by Dr. Robert Goodspeed, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. During the pilot phase, Dr. Goodspeed directed the collection of zoning district boundaries data and co-supervised the research assistants conducting code interpretation with Dr. Sarah Mills, Senior Research Area Specialist at the Graham Sustainability Institute. An expert on renewable energy policy and land use planning, Dr. Mills had created a preliminary zoning database focused on wind and solar siting issues which formed the basis of the pilot project database.