Introduction to Environmental Planning

Zoning designs should address issues of social ______ and inclusion.

The critics argued that zoning distorts the natural allocation of land use within ______.

Zoning should seek to maintain and improve the local ______.

The only other headache is ______ and collusion in the system.

A more innovative land use regulatory system will advance community ______.

Land is the ______ on which the existence of life and man depends.

Land is the foundation of ______, food and employment.

Even where the remains are cremated, the ashes eventually settle on ______.

It is imperative to ______ the use to which the land is put.

One of the veritable tools of physical planning is the concept of ______.

The inelasticity supply curve for land highlights its ______ supply.

Planning is the art and science of controlling the use of ______.

Lord Scarman described planning as anything that relates to the character of the use of ______.

Zoning refers to either the land use provision in the ______ Regional Land Use Plan.

Euclidean Zoning was first adopted in the city of ______ in Ohio.

The primary planning function of each zone is to preserve the neighborhood by eliminating ______ uses of land.

Performance zoning requires developers to mitigate the ______ impact of development.

Incentive zoning allows projects to exceed standard requirements if they provide benefits to the local ______.

Form-Based zoning emphasizes the ______, design, and placement of buildings.

Zoning attempts to separate contradictory socio-economic activities ______ from other land uses.

Communities that implement form-based zoning believe that the arrangement of buildings defines the community's ______.

The concept and practice of zoning is thoroughly ancient, dating back over 1800 years before Christ in ______.

During the time of Christ, Emperor Augustus ______ imposed height limits on Roman buildings.

In 1669, ______ also established height limits for buildings similar to those in Rome.

New York City is credited with the first comprehensive set of zoning ______ that applied to the entire city.

Without zoning, residential property owners could face plummeting property ______ if negative externalities moved in next door.

The rationale for zoning includes dividing municipalities into zones for residential, commercial, and ______ properties.

Progressive zoning is often justified as a necessary response to challenges that arise from the laissez faire theory of ______.

In the United States, the notable exception to zoning practices is found in ______, where zoning was rejected by voters.

Planning is a preconceived instrument for arranging the use and allocation of land for competing uses in order to attain optimal, maximum and efficient land use for the ______ of the community.

Restrictively, planning can be defined as a system of regulatory zoning restrictions on the general rights of the landowner to use and develop his land based on preconceived socio-economic patterns of a given ______.

The basic ideology of planning is the regulation of development and control of the use of land for the benefit of a community as a whole in a ______ way.

The purpose of town planning is to provide a quality living environment, facilitating economic development and promoting health, safety, convenience and general ______ of the community.

The objective of physical planning is to achieve an organized environment that avoids environmental problems and makes land available to prospective users at reasonable ______.

Planning is directed at the future, learning from the past and trying to preserve its strengths and ______.

The overall objectives of planning law is to restrict the use to which an individual may put his land in the overall interest and ______ of society.

Zoning is the division of a city or town by legislative regulation into districts, prescribing and applying regulations related to structural and architectural designs of buildings, as well as the ______ to which buildings may be put.

Land and its resources must be efficiently managed and efficiency requires that all planning should have regard to the best economic use to which ______ can be put.

Zoning in urban neighborhoods is not merely for protecting the market values of individual properties, but rather is a device that protects a neighborhood from ______ by land uses inconsistent with its character.

Its appeal lies in the fact that it allows homeowners to protect all the value we place in a home, including the consumer ______ that lies above and beyond the market price of the home.

Most of the critics of zoning fall into four broad categories, two concern fairness or equity and the other two are based on considerations of economic ______.

Some critics contend that zoning is fundamentally unfair because it grants special privileges to some property owners at the expense of ______ including principally those owners who wish to develop their properties.

Zoning is also criticized as being exclusionary because it is ______ in nature.

It is argued that zoning adds unnecessary transaction ______ to development cost outlay.

However most proponents of this argument concede that some form of local land use ______ is necessary to control the negative effects of some types of land uses.