Zoning Rules!

Zoning Rules!
Author: William A. Fischel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2015
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781558442887

"Zoning has for a century enabled cities to chart their own course. It is a useful and popular institution, enabling homeowners to protect their main investment and provide safe neighborhoods. As home values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters’ excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. The barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Some state, federal, and judicial interventions to control local zoning have done more harm than good. More effective approaches would moderate voters’ demand for local-land use regulation—by, for example, curtailing federal tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing"--Publisher's description.

Zoning Ordinance and Zone Map

Zoning Ordinance and Zone Map
Author: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2018-01-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780428469894

Excerpt from Zoning Ordinance and Zone Map: Passed by the Council July 30, 1923, Approved by Mayor August 9, 1923, Recorded in Ordinance Book, Vol. 34, Page 556 Planning Commission of said cities to recommend the boundaries of districts and appropriate regulations and re strictions to be imposed therein. Such Commission shall make a tentative report and hold public meetings thereon before submitting its final report At such time as the Council may require after such final report, Council shall afford persons interested an opportunity to be heard at a time and place to be specified in a notice of hearing to be published for ten consecutive days in 'two (2) daily newspapers of general circulation in said cities, and the said cities shall not determine the boundaries of any dis trict nor impose any regulations or restrictions until after the final report of the City Planning Commission and after said hearing before Council. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Zoned in the USA

Zoned in the USA
Author: Sonia A. Hirt
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0801454700

Why are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to European cities, those in the United States are characterized by lower densities and greater distances; neat, geometric layouts; an abundance of green space; a greater level of social segregation reflected in space; and—perhaps most noticeably—a greater share of individual, single-family detached housing. In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. Hirt argues that zoning laws are among the important but understudied reasons for the cross-continental differences.Hirt shows that rather than being imported from Europe, U.S. municipal zoning law was in fact an institution that quickly developed its own, distinctly American profile. A distinct spatial culture of individualism—founded on an ideal of separate, single-family residences apart from the dirt and turmoil of industrial and agricultural production—has driven much of municipal regulation, defined land-use, and, ultimately, shaped American life. Hirt explores municipal zoning from a comparative and international perspective, drawing on archival resources and contemporary land-use laws from England, Germany, France, Australia, Russia, Canada, and Japan to challenge assumptions about American cities and the laws that guide them.

The Zoning of America

The Zoning of America
Author: Michael Allan Wolf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2008
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Revisits the landmark case Euclid v. Ambler, in which the Supreme Court surprisingly upheld the constitutionality of local zoning laws protecting residential neighborhoods from real and perceived disturbances, a decision that forever changed the way American cities and their suburbs were organized.