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let alone.
Noninterference by the government in private business affairs. |
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| Unplanned expansion of a municipality over a large geographic area. |
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Growth Management Act 1985.
Infrastructure, such as roads and water and waste treatment facilities be in place before new development is allowed. |
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| Planning Commission Composition |
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Usually appointed voluntary role.
City Council or Commission appoint.
Advisory body to city or county.
Commission/Elected government make final decisions. |
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| Planning Commission Final Authority... |
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Subdivision Plat Approval
Site Plan Approval
Sign Control |
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| Planning Commission Support Staff |
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Composed of full time city or county employees.
Evaluate the economic base of a city. |
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Population
Area Economic
Existing Land
Physiographic
Recreation and community facilities
Throughfare |
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| Population Backgroud Study |
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Most basic and important of studies.
Identify the following:
Composition of population
Number of households and incomes
Number and locations of ethnic groups
Occupations of residents
Education levels.
5-10 years into the future for projections.
Indication of the number of new households expected to move into an area. |
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| Economic Background Study |
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Effect of base-industry employment in an area.
Determine if area is tourist, industrial, commercial, educations or ag. |
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Industries that attract outside money to the area.
film making
fertilizer plant
citrus industry |
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Customer are local residents
Grocery
Barber
Retail |
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| Existing Land Use Studies |
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To plan for the future, they look at the past.
Study and plot:
Residential
Commercial
Industrial
Agricultural
Special Use
Once patterned, dictates future land uses. |
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They describe the physical structure of the land.
All cataloged types are plotted on map.
Help avoid unexpeted problems with soil: drainage, soil percolation and load bearing. |
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| Recreation and Community Studies |
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| Coordinated with Pop Studies. Plan for public and private recreation parks. |
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Designed to identify existing and projected traffic circulation systems.
Closely related to pop and economic studies.
Cities with 50k people must do urban and throughfare studies
Joint venture between city, county and state. |
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Local laws that implement the comprehensive plan.
Permissible uses for parcel
Lot Size
Type of Structures
Building Heights
Setback requirements
Density. |
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Local Government. Protect the public health Set minimum standards for:
Materials and quality of workmanship
Sanitary
Equipment
Electrical
Wiring
Fire
Prevention |
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| Issued once construction is completed and the municipal building inspector agrees that the structure is to code and all fees have been paid. |
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| Control maintenance and sanitation of public spaces. |
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| Regulates density or units per acre. |
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Regulates the intensity of use.
Intensity is determined by the type and amount of pedestrian and vehicular traffic generated. |
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| Strip of land separating one land use from another. |
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Regulates intensity of use.
Intensity is determined by the type and amount of pedestrian and vehicular traffic generated. |
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All inclusive category.
No subcategories.
No xoning controls will attempt to regulate the type of agriculture permitted. |
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| Zoning Board of Adjustment |
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To provide property owners some degree of relief from otherwise rigid zoning codes.
Takes all possible precautions to render objective, unbiased decisions.
Once decision rendered, court is the next option. |
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Allows a propery owner to vary from strict compliance with all or part of a zoning code.
To comply would force undue hardship on property owner.
Must show hardship exists or would be created by strict compliance.
Board must use the same criteria to judge all requests for a variance. |
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| A departure from the zoning ordinance, generally permitted in cases whereit is determined that the surrounding area would be better served by allowing the exception. |
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Established before zoning but no longer conforms to the use regulations of the zone in which it is located.
Not permitted to a change in size or structural changes. |
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| Planned Unit Development AKA PUD |
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Special land use allowed under most local zoning ordinances.
Clusters residential units on smaller lots to create max open spaces.
Mixed use land. Multi-use-zoning. |
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No set back requirement.
Garden homes or paito homes. |
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| Environmental Impact Statement |
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| Summerizes into a single document the long term impact effect a proposed project will have on the quality of surrounding area. |
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| Special Flood Hazard Area |
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Home or buildings located in the 100 year flood plan.
Have a 1% or greater chance of flooding in any given year, which is a 26% chance of flooding during a 30 year mortgage. |
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