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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]
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]
"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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
The urban sprawl that most US cities began to experience in the mid-twentieth century was, in part, created by a flat approach to land use regulations. Zoning without planning created unnecessarily exclusive zones. Thoughtless mapping of these zones over large areas was a big part of the recipe for suburban sprawl. [4]