comprehensive zoning

  • 1comprehensive zoning plan — A general plan to control and direct the use and development of property in a municipality or in a large part thereof by dividing it into districts according to the present and potential use of the properties. Damick v. Planning and Zoning… …

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  • 2comprehensive zoning plan — A general plan to control and direct the use and development of property in a municipality or in a large part thereof by dividing it into districts according to the present and potential use of the properties. Damick v. Planning and Zoning… …

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  • 3comprehensive — com·pre·hen·sive /ˌkäm pri hen siv/ adj: covering completely or broadly a comprehensive insurance policy Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. comprehensive …

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  • 4zoning — The division of a city or town by legislative regulation into districts and the prescription and application in each district of regulations having to do with structural and architectural designs of buildings and of regulations prescribing use to …

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  • 5zoning — /zoh ning/, adj. (esp. in city planning) of or pertaining to the division of an area into zones, as to restrict the number and types of buildings and their uses: zoning laws. [1810 20; ZONE + ING2] * * * Legislative method of controlling land use …

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  • 6Comprehensive planning — is a term used in the United States by land use planners to describe a process that determines community goals and aspirations in terms of community development. The outcome of comprehensive planning is the Comprehensive Plan which dictates… …

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  • 7Zoning in the United States — comprise land use state laws falling under the police power rights state governments may exercise over private real property. Origins and historySpecial laws and regulations were long made, restricting the places where particular businesses… …

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  • 8Comprehensive campaign — A comprehensive campaign is labor union organizing or a collective bargaining campaign with a heavy focus on research, the use of community coalition building, publicity and public pressure, political and regulatory pressure, and economic and… …

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  • 9spot zoning — n: the usu. illegal rezoning of a small parcel of land within the limits of another zone that is illegal when not done in accord with a comprehensive zoning plan or when arbitrary or discriminatory compare variance Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of …

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  • 10Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Act: Chapter 40B — The Comprehensive Permit Act[1] is a Massachusetts law which allows developers of affordable housing to override certain aspects of municipal zoning bylaws and other requirements. Is consists of Massachusetts General Laws (M.G.L.) Chapter 40B,… …

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