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Ambler Realty owned 68 acres (0.28 km 2) of land in the village of Euclid, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.The village, in an attempt to prevent industrial Cleveland from growing into and subsuming Euclid and to prevent the growth of industry which might change the character of the village, developed a zoning ordinance based upon six classes of use, three classes of height and four classes of area.
Exclusionary zoning is the use of zoning ... 1926 landmark case of Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. ... number of municipalities with zoning legislation ...
The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. According to the New York Times, "single-family zoning is practically gospel in America," as a vast number of cities zone land extensively for detached single-family homes. [10]
Euclid is the city where Charles F. Brush created the Arc Lamp in 1876. [9] The cordless telephone was invented in Euclid by George Sweigert in 1969. [10] Euclid is the site of the 1926 U.S. Supreme Court case Euclid v. Ambler. The case opened the doors for municipalities across the United States to establish zoning ordinances.
Single-use zoning is where only one kind of use is allowed per zone, or district. It is also known as exclusionary zoning [8]: 65 or, in the United States, as Euclidean zoning because of a court case in Euclid, Ohio, Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. 272 U.S. 365 (1926), which established its constitutionality. [17]
Warley, which declared explicit race-based zoning statutes unconstitutional, the court in 1926 decided in Euclid v. Ambler that it was a legitimate use of the police power of cities to ban apartment buildings from certain neighborhoods, with Justice George Sutherland referring to an apartment complex as "a mere parasite" on a neighborhood.
A planning and zoning commission is a local elected or appointed government board charged with recommending to the local town or city council the boundaries of the various original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced therein and any proposed amendments thereto. In addition, the Planning and Zoning Commission collects ...
Zoning laws are the classic example; see Hadacheck v. Sebastian, 239 U.S. 394 (1915) (prohibition of brickyard operations within certain neighborhoods); Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365 (1926) (prohibition of industrial use); Gorieb v.