Title: How Can Zoning Protect Land Values? | Home Guides | SF Gate
Headings: How Can Zoning Protect Land Values?
How Can Zoning Protect Land Values?
Zoning Regulations
Supply and Demand
Get the Best Mortgage Rate for You
Up-Zoning
Too Much of a Good Thing

Content: How Can Zoning Protect Land Values? | Home Guides | SF Gate
How Can Zoning Protect Land Values? Home Guides
|
Home
|
Home Finance
|
Housing Assistance
By Mary Gallagher
The effect of zoning on property values has been studied in great detail without consensus. What is difficult about the question is that so many variables influence property values, it's impossible to know which or which combination are responsible. Given these ambiguities, several good arguments can be made that traditional zoning, especially up-zoning, not only protects but promotes property values. Zoning Regulations
Zoning is local land-use regulation that restricts development by area. Categories such as low-density housing, high density housing, low and high density mixed use, retail, commercial and industrial are defined and assigned to specific areas and neighborhoods. Within those areas or zoning districts, a property owner can build what the zone allows. For instance, in a low density zoning district an owner could build a one- or two-unit home. In an industrially-zoned site, an owner could build a manufacturing plant.