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B. Bacon, Indiana; Badger Grove, Indiana; Baileys Corner, Indiana; Bainter Town, Indiana; Baker, Indiana; Bakers Corner, Indiana; Bakertown, Indiana; Balbec, Indiana
Unincorporated communities in Vigo County, Indiana (1 C, 48 P) W. Unincorporated communities in Wabash County, Indiana (20 P)
A number of services and governmental responsibilities, including road maintenance, natural resource management, zoning, and flood control, are delegated by the state of Indiana to county-level government; As a result, residents of the excluded cities are obligated to pay county-wide taxes, and the powers of the mayor of Indianapolis extend to ...
Since the early 1900s, U.S. states and municipalities have regulated housing through zoning laws. These laws restrict builders on things like lot size, maximum structure size and much more.
In the United States, a home rule city, charter city, or home rule charter city is a city in which the governing system is defined by its own municipal charter document rather than solely by state statute (general law). State law may require general-law cities to have a five-member city council, for example, as in California, but a city ...
"Second-class" cities had a population of at least 34,000 and up to 600,000 at time of designation, and have a nine-member city council and an elected clerk. Indianapolis is the only "first-class" city in Indiana under state law, making it subject to a consolidated city-county government known as Unigov. A town is differentiated from a city in ...
Senate Bill 181 requires the attorney general to enforce Indiana’s law banning “sanctuary city” ordinances, which restrict local cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Zoning laws in major cities originated with the Los Angeles zoning ordinances of 1904 [4] [5] and the New York City 1916 Zoning Resolution. [6] Early zoning regulations were in some cases motivated by racism and classism, particularly with regard to those mandating single-family housing.