Comprehensive plan
Master plan. Is not a regulatory document but rather a guide to planning for change either than reacting to proposals
Zoning ordinances
Local laws that implement the comprehensive plan and relate and control the use of land and structures within designated land use districts.
Planned Unit Development (PUD)
A development where land is set aside for mixed purposes, such as residential, commercial and public areas.
Buffer zone
Typically a strip of land separating land dedicated to one use from land dedicated to another use.
EX: Ladscaped parks and playgrounds and hiking trails are used to screen residential areas from nonresidential zones.
Bulk zoning
Aesthetic zoning
Incentive zoning
Bulk zoning: Control density and avoid over crowding by imposing restrictions such as set backs and maximum building heights, and requiring a specified percentage of open area or by restricting new construction projects
Aesthetic zoning: To specify certai
Non conforming use
May be allowed to continue legal as long as it complies with the regulations governing noncomformaties in the local ordinance or until the improvement is destroyed or torn down or the current use is abandoned.
Conditional use permits
Granted to a property owner to allow a special use of property, defined as an allowable conditional use, within that zone, such as a daycare center in residential area
Allow nonconforming but related land use
Variance
(exception) Provides relief if zoning regulations deprive a owner of the reasonable use of the property.
To qualify for variance, the owner must demonstrate the unique circumstances that make the variance necessary. In addition, the owner must provide tha
Building codes
Specific construction standards that must be met when repairing, or erecting buildings.
Subdivider
A person who buys undeveloped acreage and divides it into smaller lots for sale to individuals or developers or for the subdividers own use.
DEveloper
improves the land, constructs home or other buildings on the lots, and sells the,.
Resedential subdivision
developers usually pay the costs to provide new water, sewer, streets, curbs, and sidewalks
Plat map
A detailed map that illustrates the geographic boundaries of individual lots. Shows the blocks, sections, streets, public easements, and monuments in the prospective subdivision.
Density zoning
Ordinances for certain subdivisions, which restrict the average maximum number of houses per acre that ma be built within a particular subdivisions.
Restrictive covenants
Limitations to the use of property imposed by a past owner or the current owner and are binding on future grantees
Covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC&Rs)
Private rules set up by the developer that set standards for all the parcels within the refined subdivision.