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Also, the city has enacted development regulations that specify how lots are subdivided, standard setbacks, and parking requirements. [61] The regulations have contributed to the city's automobile-dependent sprawl, by requiring the existence of large minimum residential lot sizes and large commercial parking lots. [62]
Exclusionary zoning is the use of zoning ordinances to exclude certain types of land uses from a given community, especially to regulate racial and economic diversity. [1] In the United States, exclusionary zoning ordinances are standard in almost all communities.
As an example, an old, run-down, single family home on a typical lot in Washington, DC, would sell for about $1 million, but if it were legal for a developer to build a three-story, six unit condominium building on that lot, those units would sell for about $600,000; which is 40% less per unit and 500% more units.
‘All our dreams are out of the window’: This Florida couple paid $350K for an empty lot to build 3 houses on — only to discover their land was ‘unbuildable’ due to 1 undisclosed problem
The development, on what was previously considered an "unbuildable" lot, received conditional approval for a water hookup. The development, on what was previously considered an "unbuildable" lot ...
The Rockland ZBA closed the public hearing on a Chapter 40B project on the 'unbuildable' lot at 320 Concord St., after getting an agreement on height.
This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).
This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations. An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas".