Potpourri
Agriculture, recreation, industrial, residential
What are types of land uses?
Four primary items regulated by zoning
What is land use, density, bulk (dimensions), and performance
HOLC
What is the Homeowners' Loan Corporation
Created Central Park
Who is Fredrick Law Olmstead?
When the London Rebuilding Act was passed
What is 1667?
Habitat fragmentation and community segregation
What are environmental and social impacts of sprawl?
This act can stop development on both public and private land.
What is the Endangered Species Act?
Highest and Best use
What is one way land can be described (e.g. real estate term, $$)?
Said "Self-interest brings ruin to all"
Who is Garrett Hardin?
NEPA stands for....
What is the National Environmental Policy Act?
Displacement via improvement
What is gentrification?
Zoning that prohibited certain populations from residing in an area.
What is exclusionary zoning?
An enabler of post-WW II growth to the suburbs
What is affordable mortgages/GI Bill, interstate hwy.?
"Eyes on the street" and defended East Village from a highway project.
Who is Jane Jacobs?
Year that Senate Bill 100 was pass
What is 1973?
Impacts of shrinking cities
What is eroding tax base, deterioration of infrastructure, and higher property taxes?
"No net loss" is part of this Act
What is the Clean Water Act?
Poor school quality, adverse health incomes, and reduced opportunities for wealth accumulation.
What are impacts of redlining that continue to impact communities today?
Haussman's contemporary in New York and Chicago.
First supreme court case testing zoning powers.
What is Euclid v. Ambler? year: 1926
Is quoted saying "If development doesn't go somewhere, it goes everywhere. And if it goes everywhere, you look like anywhere"
Almost every city/county has a zoning code, but fewer cities/counties have this
What is comprehensive plan/urban growth area/boundary?
Five questions to understand land use
1) What are the characteristics of this land?
2) What are the characteristics of the surrounding land?
3) Why is the land being used this way?
4) How could the land be used "better"?
5) Who can change land use practices?
Wrote and sponsored SB 100
Who is Hector MacPherson?
"Pay or Waive"
What is Measure 37 (2004)?