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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"rezoning"”.
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The impacts of rezoning on adjacent property values
… in Vancouver's west side, is undergoing a rezoning from light industrial to higher density residential relative to the adjacent neighboring properties. Using a statistical procedure known as hedonic modelling, the results indicate that the rezoning has had no impact on property values. This …
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Rules of the game : rezoning Boston, 1984-1989
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Rezoning, Real Estate, and The Dynamics of Displacement in Inwood
<p>This thesis asks <em>how New York City’s rezoning process combine with the dynamics of real-estate sales to create displacement pressures for low-income communities of color</em>. A case study of the recent rezoning of Inwood, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, in August 2018, will help to …
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Rezoning New York City : A case study of East Harlem
… units be made permanently affordable. While rezoning actions are often studied years later in order to provide enough time to measure their success, the city's plan calls for as many as 15 neighborhoods to be rezoned within 10 years. A real-time analysis of an individual neighborhood rezoning …
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Making change legible : public notices and the visual communication of planning in the U.S.
… government more visible, could well-designed rezoning notification signs encourage engagement with development processes? This thesis is a comparative study of posted public notice for rezoning actions in twenty US cities. It investigates the public notice sign as a designed artefact and …
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Game of zones : neighborhood rezonings and uneven urban growth in Bloomberg's New York City
… implemented dozens of neighborhood-scale rezonings to catalyze economic growth and create the conditions for new residential development. With the amount of housing affordable to low- and moderate-income households diminishing every year and a new administration publically committed to …
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Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
… conflict within the local policy subsystem of rezoning in the Crooked Creek neighborhood in Indianapolis. My analysis spotlights the consequences of devolution one of which is the shift from government to neighborhood governance; I examine these issues by mapping out the causes and consequences …
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An analysis of the perceptions surrounding the re-zoning of the Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area
… perceptions of stakeholders towards the rezoning of Africa’s oldest MPA, the Tsitsikamma National Park (TNP) MPA. In South Africa, MPAs created prior to 1994 under the Apartheid regime disregarded local communities’ rights to the coast and in some cases removed or restricted access, with …
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Relationship between growth patterns and planning practices: a case study of the city of Roanoke
… Publications by Roanoke City Government, rezoning request notices for the city from 1978 to 1991 and rezoning request files from 1982 to 1991 and publications on five neighborhoods were used to examine the (1) differences between the 1966 and 1987 zoning ordinances, (2) application of the …
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Identifying Real Estate Development Opportunities: Web-Scraping, Regex Patterns & String-Searching Algorithms
… to search for real estate development and land rezoning opportunities from publicly available local Government data. The focus area of the thesis is Sydney, Australia and the subject of the thesis is the Aiden1 platform that is owned by the Principal Investigator and author. The platform uses …
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A legal perspective on the role of municipalities in navigating the relationship between land use planning and mining
… use for mining purposes? b) Should municipal rezoning procedures be incorporated into the application process for mining rights? These issues are considered by examining three selected municipalities’ rezoning procedures and policies and comparing these to the requirements of mining right …
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Including inclusionary zoning : the case of New York City
… York City, are presented. A case study of the rezoning proposal by the Department of City Planning for the neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn and the inclusionary zoning debate that accompanied it, is used to frame the positions for and against inclusionary zoning. It also highlights the …
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A Case Study of the Federal Lands Initiative
… zoned for institutional land uses and as such, rezoning the property is a common requirement. This can present significant challenges depending on the local context and politics as well as negative stereotypes surrounding affordable housing. Potential proponents of the program are also charged …
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Designing Human-Centered Collaborative Systems for School Redistricting
… user study conducted during a live public school rezoning deliberation utilizing the newly proposed hybrid approach. The live study specifically elucidates the efficacy of key design choices and the representation and rationalization of intricate user constraints in civic deliberations and …
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Techniques for compressible flow calculations on multi-zone grids
… Two different approaches, clipping and Ramshaw’s rezoning algorithms, for performing a conservative flux calculation are described and compared in terms of numerical efficiency. In order to show the real gas \\\ effects in the upwind schemes, two tcst problems are solved. Also to demonstrate the …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
When the New City Rezoning Plan of Manhattan was approved in 2008, it intensified the conflict over living conditions between Chinese tenants and landowners in New York’s Chinatown. As a result of rising real estate prices and loss of small business services, great numbers of Chinese residents and …
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New housing in old Chinatown : barriers and incentives to affordable housing development
… affordable housing in Chinatown and will propose rezoning as one mechanism for affordable housing development.
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Modeling of shell forming by line heating
… focused on a small area under the heat source, a rezoning technique is developed to reduce computation time in three-dimensional numerical simulation. This involves dynamic remeshing of the metal plate so that the area directly under the heat source is densely meshed while other areas are sparsely …
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Perceptions of a Middle School Reconfiguration: A Descriptive Case Study
… school.</p> <p>The reconfiguration resulted in rezoning attendance zones, reconstructing the new high school, raising the new elementary school, repurposing the old elementary school, reconfiguring the grades, and reassigning existing staff among the district's buildings. The students in the 4 …
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Living on the land: redesigning land use relationships in the Philippi Horticultural Area
… land in the PHA is being considered. While rezoning will address the demand for housing, it will put even further pressure on the current natural systems and water resources, as well as the historic presence of agriculture in the PHA. A new approach is required using landscape-based urban …
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