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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 ...
These regional planning agencies existed prior to the realignment beginning in 2013: Capitol Region Council of Governments [13] (Hartford area) Central Connecticut Regional Planning Agency [14] (Bristol-New Britain area) Connecticut River Estuary Regional Planning Agency [15] (Old Saybrook area)
Georgetown is a town and the county seat of Sussex County, Delaware, United States. [3] According to the 2010 census, the population of the town is 6,422, an increase of 38.3% over the previous decade. [4] Georgetown is part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.
SmartCode is a unified land development ordinance template for planning and urban design. Originally developed by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company, this open source program is a model form-based unified land development ordinance designed to create walkable neighborhoods across the full spectrum of human settlement, from the most rural to the most urban, incorporating a transect of character and ...
Zoning codes have evolved over the years as urban planning theory has changed, legal constraints have fluctuated, and political priorities have shifted. [87] The various approaches to zoning may be divided into four categories: Use-based (known as Euclidean in the US), performance, incentive, and form-based. [ 88 ]
The United States government established planning organizations to provide for the coordination of land use, transportation and infrastructure. These Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO) may exist as a separate, independent organization or they may be administered by a city, county, regional planning organization , highway commission or ...
Duany's firm DPZ has embodied the transect philosophy into their SmartCode generic planning code for municipal ordinances. [2] [3] [4] The importance of transect planning is particularly seen as a contrast to modern Euclidean zoning and suburban development. In these patterns, large areas are dedicated to a single purpose, such as housing ...
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 ...