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The objective of planning land use is to influence, control or direct changes in the use of land so that it is dedicated to the most beneficial use and maintains the quality of the environment and promoting conservation of the land resources. The territorial diagnosis and the generation of alternatives of management and environmental protection ...
A planned unit development (PUD) is a type of flexible, non-Euclidean zoning device that redefines the land uses allowed within a stated land area. PUDs consist of unitary site plans that promote the creation of open spaces, mixed-use housing and land uses, environmental preservation and sustainability, and development flexibility. [1]
Information flow in the CLUE-S /Dyna-CLUE model (overview) [9] The Dyna-CLUE (dynamic conversion of land use and its effects) model is the adapted version of CLUE-S model, built upon the combination of the top-down approach of spatial allocation of land-use change and bottom-up approach of specification of conversions for specific land-use alterations.
Zoning is a law that divides a jurisdiction's land into districts, or zones, and limits how land in each district can be used. [1] [2] In the United States, zoning includes various land use laws enforced through the police power rights of state governments and local governments to exercise authority over privately owned real property. [3]
The Orange County bankruptcy was at the time the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. [47] Land use conflicts arose between established areas in the north and less developed areas in the south. These conflicts were over issues such as construction of new toll roads and the repurposing of a decommissioned air base.
Tennessee could lose over 1 million acres of farmland to imminent development, according to an American Farmland Trust study, a "Farms Under Threat Tennessee," examining expected trends from 2016 ...
Nancy Crow and her husband, John Stitzlein, live on a 218-acre farm in Liberty Township in northern Fairfield County, one that grows thick with hay and corn and soybeans and memories.. A 1,000 ...
Land use and land management practices have a major impact on natural resources including water, soil, nutrients, plants and animals. [6] [7] Land use change is "the change from one land-use category to another". [2]: 2914 Land-use change, together with use of fossil fuels, are the major anthropogenic sources of carbon dioxide, a dominant ...