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Oct. 21—MORGANTOWN — If you've ever wondered who owns a particular piece of land, or the most recent appraised value of an available building or whether or not a property falls within a ...
Prior to the creation of the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), the development and infrastructure decision making process was concentrated in the hands of bureaucrats such as Robert Moses, who made decisions with limited or no local input. ULURP specifies six phases in the procedure - each of which brings an additional local ...
Contract zoning in the United States, also referred to as "zoning by contract", "rezoning by contract", or "rezoning subject to conditions" [1] is a form of land use regulation in which a local zoning authority accommodates a private interest by rezoning a district or a parcel of land within that district to a zoning classification with fewer restrictions based on an agreement that the ...
A Land Information System (LIS) is a geographic information system for cadastral and land-use mapping, typically used by local governments. [1]A LIS consists of an accurate, current and reliable land record cadastre and its associated attribute and spatial data that represent the legal boundaries of land tenure and provides a vital base layer capable of integration into other geographic ...
A type of the Lot and Block system is frequently used for tax identification purposes in the United States. This designation, often called a Tax Identification Number or Tax Parcel Number, is not directly based on the legal description of the property. The system can be used even if the property is not legally described by the Block and Lot system.
A land-parcel identification system (LPIS) is a system to identify land use for a given country. [1] It utilises orthophotos; aerial photographs and high precision satellite images that are digitally rendered to extract as much meaningful spatial information as possible. A unique number is given to each land parcel to provide unique ...
An assessor's parcel number, or APN, is a number assigned to parcels of real property by the tax assessor of a particular jurisdiction for purposes of identification and record-keeping. The assigned number is unique within the particular jurisdiction, and may conform to certain formatting standards that convey basic identifying information such ...
A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...