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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]
A Standard State Zoning Enabling Act" (SZEA) was a model law for U.S. states to enable zoning regulations in their jurisdictions. It was drafted by a committee of the Department of Commerce and first issued in 1922. This act was one of the foundational developments in land use planning in the United States.
Ambler Realty owned 68 acres (0.28 km 2) of land in the village of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of the industrial city of Cleveland.In an attempt to prevent Cleveland from subsuming the village and the growth of industry which might change its character, Euclid developed a zoning ordinance based upon six classes of use, three classes of height and four classes of area.
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]
The city of Los Angeles is on the verge of redrafting blueprints for its neighborhoods to accommodate more than 250,000 new homes.But under a recommendation from the planning department, nearly ...
The 1916 Zoning Resolution in New York City was the first citywide zoning code in the United States. The zoning resolution reflected both borough and local interests, and was adopted primarily to stop massive buildings from preventing light and air from reaching the streets below.
"If you asked 100 land planners in America whether they thought it's a good idea to put the Four Arts in R-B single-family residential zoning, that is the one thing that 100 land planners could ...
Hogg Hummock is one of just a few communities in the South of people known as Gullah, or Geechee, in The post Descendants of enslaved people could lose inherited Ga. land after zoning change ...