Have Rights to Protest?

[Akitek1]

Hi,

Is it possible for someone to file a protest or objection to a building development in the States?

Appreciate your reply.

Akitek

[Architorture]

happens all the time

[Akitek1]

What does the architect do? Arrange a meeting to meet up to explain? or let the council does the reply?

Thanks

[Architorture]

generally architects do not come out and protest a building...usually its more on the community level...or environmental level...

i think enough architects know better than to come out and blast other architects work... i mean how can one architect possibly claim to be better than another in our current state of architecture... just as many people could easily come out and say that this other architecture is equally as bad for just as many subjective reasons...

now if it comes down to things such as safety and the public interest, those can be proved...but things such as aesthetics...that is just career suicide to come out and bad mouth someone... b/c that same person can probably turn around and blame you of the same short comings... its a tough situation if you are only talking aesthetics

[Kevin]

Development in the US may be regulated at the neighborhood, city, county, regional, state, and/or national level.

The degree and kind of regulation varies widely, as do the the processes for commenting on or objecting to development proposals.

While there are a million different details, in many but not all cases, where there is some regulation of development, there are opportunities for public comment, and opportunities to appeal to the decision of a regulatory body to a higher level decision maker.

Perhaps the biggest level of variation is from state to state. Oregon for instance is known for a well-thought-out and fairly balanced land use system. Other states have a relatively free-for-all system, or one even more easily controlled by big-money interests.

Design review, which provides for subjective review and approval of specific architectural expression in a project, is relatively rare, especially outside of special historical districts, but there are still quite a few localities that do it.