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Types of Zoning Codes | Zoning Matters
- he most common and most traditional approach to zoning is called Euclidean zoning.
- single-family residential, multi-family residential, commercial, institutional, industrial and recreational.
- dimensional standards that regulate the height, bulk and area of structures.
- setbacks, sideyards, height limits, minimum lot sizes, and lot coverage limits.
- rderly growth, preventing overcrowding of land and people, alleviating congestion, and separating incompatible uses
- lack of flexibility
- more emphasis on regulating the form and scale of buildings and their placement along and within public spaces
- curbing urban sprawl, promoting pedestrian safety, and preserving the fabric of historic neighborhoods.
- offers a reward
- o a developer who does something "extra" that is in the community's interest
- promotes a public goal
- can be complex to administer.
- regulates the effects or impact of land uses through performance standards.
- raffic flow, density, noise and access to light and air.
- any building that meets the performance standards for that district.
- great deal of flexibility.
- modular zoning "breaks‐up" the idea of a zone district into its fundamental building blocks - permitted uses, dimensional standards (i.e., height, bulk, and setbacks, or form), and development standards (i.e., parking, signs, landscaping) - and allows those components to be combined in different ways.
- One important advantage is the cost of keeping codes current. When book‐based codes are used, amendments need to be printed and manually inserted in the document, and many cities can only afford to consolidate amendments, send them to the publisher, and mail out updates to known code users every three or six or twelve months.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
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