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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 ...
That is, the cost of paying communities to accept pollution is often less than the (initial) costs of avoiding pollution all together. Therefore, it can be ascertained that poorer communities are likely to accept compensation for a certain level of pollution, and wealthier communities are willing to accept a smaller amount of pollution and ...
Chapter 160D makes several significant changes to zoning regulations. For example, it removes local governments' authority to have conditional use district zoning. [1]: 27 Conditional use district zoning was a complex combination of legislative and quasi-judicial processes. [6]
“In order to justify SB 9’s interference with the municipal concerns of land use and zoning regulations, ... The Census says 94.2% of Californians live in urban areas. The law also requires ...
The urban sprawl that most US cities began to experience in the mid-twentieth century was, in part, created by a flat approach to land use regulations. Zoning without planning created unnecessarily exclusive zones. Thoughtless mapping of these zones over large areas was a big part of the recipe for suburban sprawl. [4]
The Institute for Justice has launched a project to reform land use regulation.
The passive voice avoids assigning responsibility for this development to single-family zoning, city planners, and NIMBY lobbyists that have pushed people into these areas and made L.A. one of the ...
The EPA says most local governments can protect underground sources of drinking water by establishing and enforcing zoning regulations. [3]: 8 For example, a state court supported a community's denial of a variance from their land use ordinances prohibiting installation of underground petroleum storage tanks in a wellhead protection area. The ...