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  2. Planning and zoning commission - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Unified Development Ordinance - Wikipedia

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    A Unified Development Ordinance (UDO), also referred to as Unified Development Code (UDC), is a kind of American land-use planning regulation. A UDO is a document in which traditional zoning and subdivision regulations are combined with other desired city regulations, such as design guidelines and water management, into a single document.

  4. SmartCode - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Zoning in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Zoning has long been criticized as a tool of racial and socio-economic exclusion and segregation, primarily through minimum lot-size requirements and land-use segregation. [108] Early zoning codes often were explicitly racist, [109] or designed to separate social classes. [2]

  6. Inclusionary zoning - Wikipedia

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    The term inclusionary zoning indicates that these ordinances seek to counter exclusionary zoning practices, which exclude low-cost housing from a municipality through the zoning code. (For example, single-family zoning makes it illegal to build multi-family apartment buildings.) Non-profit affordable housing developers build 100% of their units ...

  7. Administrative divisions of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Individual State Descriptions: 2007 (PDF), 2007 Census of Governments, United States Census Bureau, November 2012 Gove, Samuel Kimball (1996). Illinois Politics and Government: The Expanding Metropolitan Frontier .

  8. Form-based code - Wikipedia

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    A Form-Based Code (FBC) is a means of regulating land development to achieve a specific urban form. Form-Based Codes foster predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle, with less focus on land use, through municipal regulations. An FBC is a ...

  9. Braidwood, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Braidwood is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, approximately 53 miles (85 km) southwest of Chicago and 18 miles (29 km) south of Joliet. The population was 6,191 at the 2010 census. The population was 6,191 at the 2010 census.