Editing Zoning (section)

==== Form-based zoning ====
{{Main|Form-based code}}

Form-based or intensity<ref name=":14" /> zoning regulates not the type of land use, but the form that land use may take.<ref name=":26">{{Cite web |title=Form-Based Codes Defined |url=https://formbasedcodes.org/definition/ |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=Form-Based Codes Institute at Smart Growth America |language=en-US}}</ref> For instance, form-based zoning in a dense area may insist on low setbacks, high density, and pedestrian accessibility. [[Form-based code|Form-based codes]] (FBCs) are designed to directly respond to the physical structure of a community in order to create more walkable and adaptable environments.<ref name=":27" />[[File:Eiffel_Tower_from_the_Tour_Montparnasse_3,_Paris_May_2014.jpg|thumb|[[Paris]], looking toward the high density district of [[La Défense]]]]
Form-based zoning codes have five main elements: a regulating plan, public standards, building standards, and precise definitions of technical terms.<ref name=":26" /> Form-based codes recognize the interrelated nature of all components of land-use planning—zoning, subdivision, and public works—and integrate them to define districts based on the community's desired character and intensity of development.<ref name=":27">{{Cite web |last1=Madden |first1=Mary |last2=Russell |first2=Joel |date=December 5, 2014 |title=An Introduction to Form-Based Codes |url=https://plannersweb.com/2014/12/fbc1/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303165345/https://plannersweb.com/2014/12/fbc1/ |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |website=Planners Web: News & Information for Citizen Planners}}</ref>

The French planning system is mostly form-based; zones in French cities generally allow many types of uses.<ref>{{cite web |date=24 January 2019 |title=How Paris is betting on mixed-use development |url=https://www.jll.cl/es/trends-and-insights/cities/how-paris-is-betting-on-mixed-use-development |publisher=JLL website}}</ref> The city of [[Paris]] has used its zoning system to concentrate high-density office buildings in the district of [[La Défense]] rather than allow heritage buildings across the city to be demolished to make way for them, as is often the case in London or New York.<ref>{{cite web |year=2016 |title=Londoners back limit on skyscrapers as fears for capital's skyline grow |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/27/londoners-back-skyscraper-limit-skyline |work=The Guardian}}</ref> The construction of the [[Tour Montparnasse|Montparnasse Tower]] in 1973 led to an outcry. As a result, two years after its completion the construction of buildings over seven storeys high in the city centre was banned.<ref>{{cite news |last=Laurenson |first=John |date=2013-06-18 |title=Does Paris need new skyscrapers? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22811518 |access-date=2013-06-18 |work=[[BBC News]]}}</ref>