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Neighborhood developers may create setback lines (usually defined in Covenants & Restrictions, and set forth in official neighborhood maps) to ensure uniform appearance in the neighborhood and prevent houses from crowding adjacent structures or streets. In some cases, building ahead of a setback line may be permitted through special approval.
A building's maximum floor area is regulated according to the ratio that was imposed to the site where the building is located. Another feature of new zoning solution was adjacent public open space. If developers put adjacent public open space to their buildings, they could get additional area for their building as a bonus.
Setbacks on the pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt. A setback, in the specific sense of a step-back, is a step-like form of a wall or other building frontage, also termed a recession or recessed story. [1] Step-backs lower the building's center of mass, making it more stable.
MARSHALL - The Madison County Board of Adjustment approved a second variance application to its 50-foot setback requirement for building on protected ridges, but this Flat Branch Drive project ...
The planning board will meet Nov. 17 to hear a developer's request to scrap the county's ridge protection ordinance's 50-foot setback requirement.
Early postcard picturing the Equitable Building Graph of the 1916 New York City zoning ordinance with an example elevation for an 80-foot street in a 2½-times height district. In 1916, New York City adopted the first zoning regulations to apply citywide as a reaction to construction of the Equitable Building (which still stands at 120 Broadway ...
Setback (architecture), making upper storeys of a high-rise building further back than the lower ones for aesthetic, structural, or land-use restriction reasons Setback (land use) , a dimensional standard commonly addressed under land use regulations, which define the required distances that a building, structure, or land use may exist from a ...
Scottish Parliament Building site plan. A site plan is a top view, bird’s eye view of a property that is drawn to scale. A site plan can show: property lines; outline of existing and proposed buildings and structures; distance between buildings; distance between buildings and property lines (setbacks) parking lots, indicating parking spaces ...