ZONING & LAND USE PLANNING Zoning and planning issues are often the most local of legal issues for people and companies. They affect the neighborhoods where we live, where we work, and where businesses are located. Increasingly, residential and commercial property owners find that improvements or ...
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Zoning: The practice of designating permitted uses of land to particular areas that are unambiguously separated from each other; zoning is usually enacted via land use plans and primarily aims at segregating uses that are thought to be incompatible. ...
“Order is Heaven’s first law, and zoning is but an attempt to bring about order in civic development,” as she explained to a reporter for the Sunday Advertiser. An earlier zoning effort 1905 was a reactionary effort limited to regulating building heights, but this new plan would be more...
The planning levels discussed include national, regional, state, county and municipal, and federal land management agency. Specific potential federal tools mentioned include zoning, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives, the Endangered Species Act, beyond boundary authority, land exchanges, less-than-fee ...
As a rule, it is very rare in New York State for judges to overrule decisions by local agencies such as planning and zoning boards. The decision is ironic in at least one respect: The State Authorities Budget Office decided not to delve deeper into the conflict of interest issues related ...