When we think of zoning, the first thing in many people’s minds is along the lines of “no smokestacks next to houses.” But there’s a lot of distance between “no smokestacks” and “nothing but long-term residences.” And while living near smokestacks isn’t very nice, living nea...
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IncumbentCourtney Shipleywas elected to her first term on the commission in 2019. Shipley, who currently works as a property manager, formerly served as chair of the Lawrence Association of Neighborhoods and as a member of the Board of Zoning Appeals and ...
Sellers said the city has made “great strides” on housing issues through initiatives such as the ongoing review of the city’s land use codes and zoning regulations. She said that, hopefully, will help the city be better positioned to expand housing scale and speed of production...
According to the 2010 census, Florence has a population of 1,136. Since 2000, the territorial limits of Florence has grown by 8%. Florence is located about 13 miles west from Georgetown and 40 miles north of Austin in northwestern Williamson County. The site was settled in the early 1850s...
Fran Spielman
This chapter reviews how urban regulations in history have been used to relegate populations to different parts of the city and its environs. Its main purpose is to place the twentieth-century U.S. zoning experience in historic and international context.
“If this becomes more prevalent, and [if] one Council member or all of them ask us to do the research, [we would] come up with a proposed set of rules or a new section of our code,” Shannon said. Craft-Rubio and Warrick suggested looking at what cities like Austin, where mobile...
They’re generally built into a city’s zoning rules and HOAs. An area plan can just lock down the class segregation for another generation.) In addition, if you nix all the affordable housing, you’re left with only big, spread-out houses. This is sprawl. It’s bad for traffic, bad...
1: Public Works (including code enforcement, trash pickup and street repair) 2: Building Permits 3: Planning (including zoning questions and sign permits) 4: Finance (including licensing and tax and fee payments) 5: Huntington Municipal Parking Board (including parking ticket payments) 6: Hunting...