Ch 7 Section 2 Land Use Regulation

Question 1

Building Codes

Answer 1

Are established to protect the public health and safety and are valid exercise of the state’s police power

Question 2

City and county master plans

Answer 2

A master or comprehensive plan has been adopted by most cities and many counties to guide and control the long term us and development of land within within their jurisdiction

Question 3

Zoning laws

Answer 3

the systematic division of a city or county by legislative regulation into various districts or zones.

Question 4

Zoning ordinances

Answer 4

Regulate such things as use of land and buildings, structural, and architectural designs, types of improvements permitted, height and bulk of buildings, density, lot sizes, and setbacks

Question 4

Zoning appeal boards

Answer 4

The purpose of hearing complaints that individual property owners have with local zoning ordinances
- the power to grant variances or special exceptions

Question 5

Types of Zoning

Answer 5

• Residential
• Commercial
• Industrial
• Agricultural
• Public

Question 6

Variance

Answer 6

If a property owner can prove that local sonic creates an undue hardship because of unique circumstances and also show that granting the variance will not greatly alter the character of the affected locality

Question 7

Nonconforming use

Answer 7

One that is inconsistent with and does not conform to, the current zoning ordinance

Question 8

Spot zoning

Answer 8

Said to exist when the zoning for a relatively small area differs significantly from the zoning of adjoining areas

Question 9

Downzoning

Answer 9

Involves a change in zoning from a higher, more active category to a lower, les active category.

Question 10

Bulk zoning

Answer 10

control density by restrictions on setback lines, building, height, and percentage of open areas

Question 11

Buffer zone

Answer 11

strip of land that is set aside to separate 2 types of land use that are considered incompatible

Question 12

Conditional use zoning

Answer 12

In the issuance of a zoning permit that allows a use that is not in compliance with the surrounding local zoning already in effect.

Question 13

Restrictive convenants

Answer 13

restrict the use of real property and are usually contained in a deed or lease agreement

Question 14

Deed restrictions

Answer 14

established by a subdivisions original developer are the most commonly encountered restrictive convenants

Question 15

Laches

Answer 15

an equitable doctrine that bars a person from acting against another if the complainant has unduly delayed.

Question 16

Zoning Estoppel

Answer 16

Sometimes governments can be stopped from enforcing a new downzoning ordinance against a landowner when that he has incurred substantial cost after relying upon the governments prior assurances that he had met all zoning requirements