Land Use Law

2015 Land use

Author : Denzin Brent
Release : 2015
Genre : Land use
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Download or read book Land Use Law written by Denzin Brent. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized, zoning is ultimately defined by local circumstances, which change from town to town and year to year. Land uses that were prohibited in the past may be celebrated in the future, and vice versa. Land Use Law: Zoning in the 21st Century was created to provide land use professionals with practical advice on zoning issues and up-to-date analyses of the legal issues they are likely to encounter in their practice. These tools go beyond the black letter law and focus on modern examples. In some cases the tools are familiar, but used in unique ways. In others, the circumstances demand truly "outside-the-box" thinking. A range of modern topics is covered in this volume, including: Harmonizing zoning goals Promoting economic development Managing stormwater Promoting pedestrian- and transit-oriented development Regulating adult use establishments Setting standards for gun sales and use Planning for urban agriculture Addressing foreclosures and blight Zoning for cellular communications Regulating hydraulic fracturing Planning for wind-generated energy Regulating digital signage Additionally, this volume provides appendices containing checklists, tips and guidelines, as well as sample ordinances, agreements, forms and other documents that land use professionals will find practical and helpful.

21st Century Land Development Code

2020-06-30 Land subdivision

Author : Robert Freilich
Release : 2020-06-30
Genre : Land subdivision
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Download or read book 21st Century Land Development Code written by Robert Freilich. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two of the nation's experts in land-use law and planning provide a guide to drafting and updating land-use regulations. 21st Century Land Development Code is a complete planning and law model code integrating Euclidean zoning with green codes, new urbanism, and smart growth. It covers sustainability, neighborhood development, transit-oriented development, mixed use centers, subdivision regulations, official mapping, adequate public facilities, variances, conditional uses, religious uses, adult uses, telecommunications, and complete forms and procedures.

Zoning

2019-11-06 Architecture

Author : Elliott Sclar
Release : 2019-11-06
Genre : Architecture
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Download or read book Zoning written by Elliott Sclar. This book was released on 2019-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoning is at once a key technical competency of urban planning practice and a highly politicized regulatory tool. How this contradiction between the technical and political is resolved has wide-reaching implications for urban equity and sustainability, two key concerns of urban planning. Moving beyond critiques of zoning as a regulatory hindrance to local affordability or merely the rulebook that guides urban land use, this textbook takes an institutional approach to zoning, positioning its practice within the larger political, social, and economic conflicts that shape local access for diverse groups across urban space. Foregrounding the historical-institutional setting in which zoning is embedded allows planners to more deeply engage with the equity and sustainability issues related to zoning practice. By approaching zoning from a social science and planning perspective, this text engages students of urban planning, policy, and design with several key questions relevant to the realities of zoning and land regulation they encounter in practice. Why has the practice of zoning evolved as it has? How do social and economic institutions shape zoning in contemporary practice? How does zoning relate to the other competencies of planning, such as housing and transport? Where and why has zoning, an act of physical land use regulation, replaced social planning? These questions, grounded in examples and cases, will prompt readers to think critically about the potential and limitations of zoning. By reforging the important links between zoning practice and the concerns of the urban planning profession, this text provides a new framework for considering zoning in the 21st century and beyond.

Land Use Without Zoning

2021-02-05 Nature

Author : Bernard H. Siegan
Release : 2021-02-05
Genre : Nature
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Book Synopsis Land Use Without Zoning by : Bernard H. Siegan

Download or read book Land Use Without Zoning written by Bernard H. Siegan. This book was released on 2021-02-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding in the process from a public policy backwater to one of the most discussed policy issues of the day. In his pioneering 1972 study, Land Use Without Zoning, Bernard Siegan first set out what has today emerged as a common-sense perspective: Zoning not only fails to achieve its stated ends of ordering urban growth and separating incompatible uses, but also drives housing costs up and competition down. In no uncertain terms, Siegan concludes, "Zoning has been a failure and should be eliminated!" Drawing on the unique example of Houston--America's fourth largest city, and its lone dissenter on zoning--Siegan demonstrates how land use will naturally regulate itself in a nonzoned environment. For the most part, Siegan says, markets in Houston manage growth and separate incompatible uses not from the top down, like most zoning regimes, but from the bottom up. This approach yields a result that sets Houston apart from zoned cities: its greater availability of multifamily housing. Indeed, it would seem that the main contribution of zoning is to limit housing production while adding an element of permit chaos to the process. Land Use Without Zoning reports in detail the effects of current exclusionary zoning practices and outlines the benefits that would accrue to cities that forgo municipally imposed zoning laws. Yet the book's program isn't merely destructive: beyond a critique of zoning, Siegan sets out a bold new vision for how land-use regulation might work in the United States. Released nearly a half century after the book's initial publication, this new edition recontextualizes Siegan's work for our current housing affordability challenges. It includes a new preface by law professor David Schleicher, which explains the book's role as a foundational text in the law and economics of urban land use and describes how it has informed more recent scholarship. Additionally, it includes a new afterword by urban planner Nolan Gray, which includes new data on Houston's evolution and land use relative to its peer cities.

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