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Montgomery County, Maryland, is often held to be a pioneer in establishing inclusionary zoning policies. It is the sixth wealthiest county in the United States, yet it has built more than 10,000 units of affordable housing since 1974, many units door-to-door with market-rate housing.
The 93,000 acres (380 km 2) zone was created in 1980 by the Montgomery County Council to preserve farm land and rural space in the northwestern part of the county. The farmland protection program has been characterized as "the most famous, most studied and most emulated" program of its kind in the United States. [1]
Under Chapter 40B, in any municipality where none of the three statutory minima identified by the State are met for the amount of affordable housing that exists in the community, a developer can build more densely than the municipal zoning bylaws would permit, allowing more units per acre of land when building a new development, if at least 25% (or 20% in certain cases [4]) of the new units ...
An inclusionary zoning ordinance that targets households making 80% of the area median income, or those making over $70,000 a year, isn’t helping our city workers, school instructional ...
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 ...
A building inspection is an inspection performed by a building inspector, a person who is employed by either a city, township or county and is usually certified in one or more disciplines qualifying them to make professional judgment about whether a building meets building code requirements.
The doctrine takes its name from the lead case in which it was first pronounced by the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1975: Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Mount Laurel Township (commonly called Mount Laurel I), in which the plaintiffs challenged the zoning ordinance of Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey, on the grounds that it operated to ...
OH-49, also known as Dayton-Greenville Pike is a main north–south connector from Greenville to the north in Darke County to I-70. Clay Township has established a Joint Economic Development District (a "JEDD") with the neighboring city of Clayton at the intersection of Interstate 70 and OH-49.