Terms
Changing the zone to allow for higher-value or more dense use
What is upzoning?
A process where community members help decide how to spend part of a public budget by working together to propose and vote on community budget decisions.
What is participatory budgeting?
This supreme court case first established the precedent for zoning
What is Euclid v. Ambler?
A legal doctrine that allows states to limit or prevent cities and counties from passing laws on certain issues.
What is preemption?
These bonds require voter approval.
What are general obligation bonds?
Many houses have these documents that state that only Caucasians can live there. They are illegal.
What is a racial covenant?
A tool or land use control that tells you what you can or cannot be built on a land parcel.
This supreme court case showed the police power of a city can regulate private business interests when deemed necessary for public welfare, even if it results in financial loss to individuals.
What is Hadacheck v. Sebastian?
An alternative to conventional zoning that regulates physical form to foster predictable built results in communities.
What is form based code?
This city was the first to zone
What is New York City?
The long-term, all encompassing vision for the city
What is a comprehensive plan?
Charges imposed on developers to help cover the costs of new infrastructure and services required by their developments.
What are impact fees?
This supreme court case was about a city using its eminent domain authority to seize private property to sell to private developers
What is Kelo v. New London?
Gives cities the power to regulate the pattern and quality of development when dividing land into smaller parcels.
What is a subdivision regulation?
Property owners within this
district are charged a special tax to cover the costs.
What are special assessment districts?
What is a use-based variance?
The government's right and responsibility to protect the public & the authority that allows for zoning
This constitutional amendment says that private property cannot be taken for public use without just compensation.
What is the 5th Amendment?
The power that allows a city or state agency to take your house or property.
The relationship between the impact of a new
development and the fee imposed on the developer.
What is rational nexus?
A clause attached to a property that regulates its use in some way. These are legal.
What is a deed restriction?
Mapped districts may be created with a special set of zoning requirements that are in addition to
those of the underlying zoning district. Developments within the overlay zone must conform to the requirements of both zones or the more restrictive of the two.
What is overlay zoning?
This act provided recommendations and models of city planning that states could follow.
What is the Standard City Planning Enabling Act (1928)?
Only applies to the physical acquisition of land by government.
What is a taking?
When an area is redeveloped, the increase in property taxes is used to fund the development without raising taxes overall.