The denser development also increased the taxable value of the land from $319 million to $1.91 billion, which made more resources available for municipal goods and services such as police, fire ...

“Zoning is the only land-use tool in the toolbox in a high-growth area, such as Baldwin County,” Underwood said during the meeting Tuesday.

The origins of land-use and zoning regulations can be traced to when American cities underwent rapid urbanization and industrialization in the late 19th century.

Obviously, we need more supply of housing for costs to come down. Pew Charitable Trust recently studied four municipalities that had eliminated single-family zoning — Minneapolis; Portland ...

I recently posted substantially revised versions of two new articles on land use and property rights issues to SSRN. The first is "The Constitutional Case Against Exclusionary Zoning" (coauthored ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. Change of land use - the greenbelt. A student investigates the pros and cons of building development on the greenbelt.

A survey in New London and Fairfield Counties found that land-use boards were mostly comprised of white, male homeowners.

Thus, commercial-use restrictions (like residential zoning restrictions) disproportionately harm the poor and disadvantage.d I discuss the remote work aspect of the issue in more detail in Chapter ...

Meeting Thursday addresses Beavercreek’s land use plan, zoning code, and property maintenance code and how all three affect residents and developers. Breaking: VIP Smoke Shops raid: 5 indicted ...

STRATFORD — Local zoning officials have completed a more than yearlong effort to rewrite much of the town’s land use regulations — a task aimed at modernizing and streamlining the long ...