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In land use, a setback is the minimum distance which a building or other structure must be set back from a street or road, a river or other stream, ...
Setback (architecture), making upper storeys of a high-rise building further back than the lower ones for aesthetic, structural, or land-use restriction reasons; Setback (land use), a dimensional standard commonly addressed under land use regulations, which define the required distances that a building, structure, or land use may exist from a ...
A setback, in the specific sense of a step-back, is a step-like form of a wall or other building frontage, also termed a recession or recessed story. [1] Step-backs lower the building's center of mass , making it more stable.
Floor area ratio (FAR) is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built. It is often used as one of the regulations in city planning along with the building-to-land ratio. [1] The terms can also refer to limits imposed on such a ratio through zoning.
Setback regulations would place a statewide limit on how close oil and gas facilities would be to homes, schools and other sensitive areas. Oil and gas industry, supporters push back on proposed ...
Biden said in a statement his administration "made historic investments to help left-behind communities, such as distressed areas, factory towns, and coal communities, turn setbacks into comebacks."
Midtown Manhattan in 1932 showing the results of the 1916 Zoning Resolution: many skyscrapers with setbacks. Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. The 1916 Zoning Resolution in New York City was the first citywide zoning code in the United States.
A land lease, also known as a ground lease, is an arrangement in which a landowner (the lessor, in legal terminology) rents out the land to a tenant (or the lessee).