A Practical Introduction to Zoning
Author: Carl J. Stephani
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780933729896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl J. Stephani
Publisher:
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780933729896
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carl J. Stephani
Publisher: Createspace Indie Pub Platform
Published: 2011-02-28
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781456565381
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an out-dated issue of the book Zoning 101 A Practical Introduction which you should ignore. The current 3rd Edition of the book is available under a different listing on Amazon.
Author: Carl J. Stephani
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9781886152809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Connor Murphy
Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc.
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1627877371
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When zoning and subdivision ordinances were created in the early 1900s they were two distinct governmental functions. But failure to combine them led to jurisdictions writing contradictory regulations. Author Connor Murphy looks at the standard way subdivision and zoning are presented as separate code titles in most land use regulations then combines the regulations into a single code title -- effectively solving long-standing problems planners have encountered. Common Sense Zoning makes the planning process accessible and transparent for those who wish to create a more livable future. Professional city planners and others can easily understand land use regulations that: • simplify Euclidian zoning • make sense to people who lack expertise in zoning • clearly explain the decision-making process • invite ordinary people to participate in governance • protect communities from scoundrels Common Sense Zoning provides guidance to the 34,000 small governments that can't afford to hire pricey outside consultants or pay millions to update their land use regulations.
Author: Carl Stephani
Publisher:
Published: 2012-07-16
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9781478116097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is an out-dated issue of the book Zoning 101 A Practical Introduction which you should ignore. The current 3rd Edition of the book is available under a different listing on Amazon.
Author: M. Nolan Gray
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1642832545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It's time for America to move beyond zoning, argues city planner M. Nolan Gray in Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It. With lively explanations, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary--if not sufficient--condition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common misconceptions about how American cities regulate growth and examining four contemporary critiques of zoning (its role in increasing housing costs, restricting growth in our most productive cities, institutionalizing racial and economic segregation, and mandating sprawl). He sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city. Arbitrary Lines is an invitation to rethink the rules that will continue to shape American life--where we may live or work, who we may encounter, how we may travel. If the task seems daunting, the good news is that we have nowhere to go but up
Author: Elliott Sclar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-06
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0429951256
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Donald L. Elliott
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2012-09-26
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1610910559
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development that bigger cities need and want. In fact, Elliott thinks that zoning has become so complex that it is often dysfunctional and in desperate need of an overhaul. A Better Way to Zone explains precisely what has gone wrong and how it can be fixed. A Better Way to Zone explores the constitutional and legal framework of zoning, its evolution over the course of the twentieth century, the reasons behind major reform efforts of the past, and the adverse impacts of most current city zoning systems. To unravel what has gone wrong, Elliott identifies several assumptions behind early zoning that no longer hold true, four new land use drivers that have emerged since zoning began, and basic elements of good urban governance that are violated by prevailing forms of zoning. With insight and clarity, Elliott then identifies ten sound principles for change that would avoid these mistakes, produce more livable cities, and make zoning simpler to understand and use. He also proposes five practical steps to get started on the road to zoning reform. While recent discussion of zoning has focused on how cities should look, A Better Way to Zone does not follow that trend. Although New Urbanist tools, form-based zoning, and the SmartCode are making headlines both within and outside the planning profession, Elliott believes that each has limitations as a general approach to big city zoning. While all three trends include innovations that the profession badly needs, they are sometimes misapplied to situations where they do not work well. In contrast, A Better Way to Zone provides a vision of the future of zoning that is not tied to a particular picture of how cities should look, but is instead based on how cities should operate.
Author: Ronald S. Cope
Publisher: American Bar Association Section of State and Local Government Law
Published: 2016-09
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781634255097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dwight Merriam
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Published: 2004-12-21
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0071465243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The only consumer's guide to making sense of land-use laws and regulations Many property owners have no idea what their rights are when it comes to altering their properties, or protecting themselves from encroachment by developers and the misguided building and renovation plans of neighbors. Written by a leading national expert on land-use law, The Complete Guide to Zoning tells home owners, developers, and investors nationwide everything you need to know about getting approvals and protecting your property rights. In plain English, Dwight Merriam explains how to: Get fast approvals for building and renovation plans Obtain building permits and variances Fight development projects Use land-use laws to protect and increase property values Identify and work around laws that limit building and renovation plans Deal with environmental-protection laws