GEOG434 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Putting-Out System, Time-Based Currency, Cohousing
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If you look at plans it will not get to the level of zoning. Plans talk about land use (board category) For each land use there are different zoning classifications. Zoning is regulatory; happens at level of city code. How not to do it: planning unsustainable communities. People mover, elevated rails in front of gm headquarters. The nitty gritty of community planning and implementation: zoning, codes, and ordinances. Manipulating where things go started at the turn of the 20th century. Most zoning ordinances include definitions, general provisions, delineation of zoning districts, administration and enforcement guidelines. Zoning ordinance- legal device enacted by local government used to divide a community into separate districts and regulate land use activity and intensity of users. Pay property tax (revenue for the city) For every spent at a local business, 45% is reinvested locally. For every 1$ spent at a corporation chain, only 15% is reinvested locally.