Title: Zoning Laws: A Practical Guide To Understanding What You Can And Can’t Do - CommercialCafe
Headings: Zoning Laws: A Practical Guide To Understanding What You Can And Can’t Do
Zoning Laws: A Practical Guide To Understanding What You Can And Can’t Do
What Is The Purpose Of Zoning?
Compatible Use Is a Key Factor in Zoning
How Zoning Laws and Master Plans Are Created
Collaboration
Contents
Zoning Ordinance
Future Actions
How Zoning Decisions Are Made
Examples of Zoning Laws
How to Check Zoning Laws

Content: Compatible Use Is a Key Factor in Zoning
Municipalities have two types of customers: residents and business. Residents need a place to live, and businesses create important economic growth. To avoid conflict between these two groups, cities develop a master zoning plan that focuses on the compatibility of different uses. Zoning laws regulate compatible use by: Dividing zones into different uses such as industrial, commercial, and residential districts,
Regulating the size and types of buildings that can be constructed in each zone,
Creating rules for setbacks, lot size, and green space for each building on each parcel within a zone,
Requiring developers to erect sound or sight control barriers, or install flood control systems, to minimize the development impact on neighboring properties. How Zoning Laws and Master Plans Are Created
Cities create a master development plan, or a comprehensive land use plan, to guide the development of a municipality. Using the master plan as a road map, zoning laws are used to reach the intended physical, economic, and social development. There are four general steps used to create a master development plan: Collaboration
Community input and city council approval – the residential and business communities, planning professionals, and city staff and planning commission collaborate to create a master plan.