URBN PL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Quadruplex Videotape
20 Apr 2020
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The separation of a community into zones that regulate land uses and the intensity of development . Goal: to assure that neighboring land uses are compatible or to separate land uses that are incompatible. Part of zoning that is a public, undemocratic process that defines the goals and objectives to achieve higher communities in vision of how the land will be used. Designates and provides a diagram or map illustrating the general type, intensity, and distribution of various land uses. First emerged in nyc and la in the early 1900s. Separation of use types was one of the original intents of zoning. Certain land uses are incompatible (oil drilling - housing) Special attention to the protection of single family neighborhoods. Ex: not allowed to put housing next to an oil plant. Us supreme court landmark case (1926): village of euclid v ambler realty co.
