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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"zoning ordinance"”.
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Shaping an Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance for Post-Katrina New Orleans
… justifications for supporting inclusionary zoning to address the shortage in affordable housing since hurricane Katrina and compares the model ordinance, passed in 2007, to ordinances in San Francisco, Denver, and San Diego. These large city ordinances offer an assessment of older versus …
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Draft of a zoning ordinance for the city of Waltham, Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture and City Planning, 1947.
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Limitations to the administration of special exceptions to the zoning ordinance in Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1958.
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How to Humanize a Zoning Ordinance: Practicing the Art of the Possible While Writing Laws for Bureaucrats and Citizens
… writing to persons seeking to write or revise a zoning ordinance, which is a legal and technical document dealing with certain aspects of city planning. The document design field today is fertile in terms of the many techniques it has developed for producing highly readable documents, yet most …
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Land Use Policy in Local Historic Districts and Incentives for Compliance in the Vieux Carré
… of land use policy, including the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance and the design review process in the Vieux Carré, on attempts to return vacant buildings to commerce. The author examines three cases of redevelopment attempts of vacant properties in the Vieux Carré. In two of the three cases, …
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Relationship between growth patterns and planning practices: a case study of the city of Roanoke
… Roanoke examined the transformation of Roanoke's zoning ordinance from 1966 to 1987 when Roanoke was emerging from development into redevelopment. Publications by Roanoke City Government, rezoning request notices for the city from 1978 to 1991 and rezoning request files from 1982 to 1991 and …
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Corner Culture: Corner Stores in the Black Pearl Neighborhood of New Orleans
… and suggests that a newly revised Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance in the city of New Orleans should reserve a place for these neighborhood businesses.</p>
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Open space preservation in rural residential development
… practices, minimum lot sizes are established by zoning ordinances. Under these requirements, a piece of property is subdivided into as many lots as allowed. This results in suburban development where all land is committed to individually owned parcels. The objective of this thesis is to defend …
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Passing judgement : the interaction between local and federal design review
… government is only required to consider local ordinances, but, nevertheless, it sometimes chooses to engage in the local design review process. This study looks at why the federal government makes the choice to participate in a local review, what factors influence that decision, and how that …
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Rural Planning and Zoning Adoption in the United States
… the adoption of comprehensive plans and zoning ordinances in rural counties in the United States. Through an evaluation of variables pertaining to urban hierarchy, institutional factors and political processes, two independent variables stand out. For both comprehensive planning and …
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Agricultural land protection and growth management: a case study of Story County, Iowa
… and growth management tools (primarily zoning regulations) used by Story County, Iowa, in implementing the policies of its County Development Plan (CDP). Farmland conversion and zoning permit activity from 1983 - 1998 were mapped and evaluated. Zoning permit activity was evaluated for …
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State zoning legislation and local adaptation : an evaluation on the implementation of Massachusetts Chapter 40R Smart Growth Legislation
The Smart Growth Zoning Overlay District Act (M.G.L. Chapter 40R, the Legislation) was issued in March 2005 with the mission to substantially increase the supply of housing, especially for low- and moderate-income households, and to incentivize Smart Growth land development patterns. Municipalities …
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Henrico County: a study of zoning applied
… was undertaken as a beginning of an analysis of "zoning in action." Henrico County, Virginia, has had a rural zoning ordinance in force for over a third of a century. During this period, the County was transformed from a rural locality to an urban-suburban one. The study had as one of its …