Chapter 6. Flashcards
Accessory Apartment uses
A second residential unit that may be contained within an existing single-family home, garage or carriage house. An accessory apartment is usually required to be a complete housekeeping unit that can function independently with separate access, kitchen, bedroom, and sanitary facilities.
Accessory uses
The use of land is subordinate, incidental to, and customarily found in connection with the principal use allowed on a lot by the zoning law. A garage is incidental to the principal use of a lot as a single-family residence and customarily found on a single family parcel.
Building Code
Regulations established by state or local government
Building permit
Written government permission for the construction, renovation or substantial repair of a building.
Census Tract
Small, relatively permanent statistical subdivisions of a country or equivalent entity that are updated by local participants prior to each decennial census. The primary purpose of the census tracts is to provide a stable set of geographic units for the presentation of statistical data.
Certificate of Occupancy (CO)
A document issued by a government authority that a building is ready and fit for occupancy.
Condemnation
Taking private property for public use, with fair compensation to the owner. Exercising the right of eminent domain.
Cul-de-sac
A blind alley, a street with only one outlet.
Deed Restriction
A imposed restriction in a deed for the purpose of limiting the use of the land such as:
1)A restriction against the sale of liquor thereon.
2)A A restriction as to the size, value or placement of improvements that may be erected thereon.
Demography
The statistical study of human populations.
Doctrine of laches
Failure to do something at the proper time, especially such delay as will bar a party from bringing a legal proceeding.
Eminent domain
A right of the government to acquire property for necessary public use by condemnation. the owner must be fairly compensated.
Group home
A home where a small number of unrelated people in need of care,, support, or supervision can live together, such as those who are elderly or mentally ill.
Home occupations
A business conducted in a residential dwelling unit that is incidental and subordinate to the primary residential use.
Lead Agency
The governmental agency that oversees the environmental impact process and makes final decisions.
Master plan
A long-term planning document. It establishes the framework and key elements of a site reflecting a clear vision created and adopted in an open process. It synthesizes civil goals and the public’s aspirations for a project, gives them form and organization, and defines a realistic plan for implementation, including subsequent approvals by public agencies.
Moratorium
A temporary prohibition of an activity.
Non-conforming use
Utilization of a use that does not comply with local zoning for a particular parcel.
Right-of-way
The right to pass over another’s land pursuant to an easement r license.
Setbacks
The distance from the curb or other established line, within which no buildings may be erected.
Survey
The process by which a parcel of land is measured and its area ascertained. also the blueprint showing the measurements, boundaries and area.
Topography
The arrayment of the natural and artificial physical features of an area.
Variance
The authorization to improve or develop a particular property in a manner not authorized by zoning.
Area variance
Permission to modify or exceed the bulk regulations imposed by local zoning ordinances.
