Land Controls Flashcards
Study zoning, building codes, and other regulatory controls that influence property development and usage.
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A regional land planning process for the future-oriented development of a community.
Comprehensive Plan
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A power granted to some FHA-approved lenders to perform their own review for loan approvals, requiring final FHA review.
Conditional Approval
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A permit for a property owner to engage in an activity currently unpermitted in that zone.
Conditional Use Permit
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A private agreement limiting the use of real estate, detailed in the property deed.
Deed Restriction
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A detailed analysis of a construction project’s effects on the local ecosystem.
Environmental Impact Report
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Controls on property owners’ actions, with breaches remedied by injunction.
Equitable Servitude
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Exemption allowing continuation of an activity that has become unpermitted in a zone.
Grandfather Clause
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A term that broadly describes any legal restriction controlling how land may be used, including public land use controls, such as zoning, building codes, and environmental restrictions, and private controls such as conditions, covenants, and restrictions (CCRs).
Land-Use Control
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A comprehensive long-range plan intended to guide growth and development of a community or region, including analysis, recommendations, and proposals for the community’s population, economy, housing, transportation, community facilities, and land use.
Master Plan
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A land use not currently permitted in a zone but exempted from new zoning regulations.
Nonconforming Use
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Properties involving an approved survey map recorded with the county.
Platted
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Government powers to enact laws for public health, safety, and welfare.
Police Power
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Legal map illustrating numbered lots of a subdivision.
Recorded Subdivision Plat
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An identified area seeking improvements where residents/users are willing to pay for it.
Special Assessment District/Improvement District
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A zoning exception granted by a local authority allowing a property to be used in a way not normally permitted within a particular zoning district, typically for uses considered beneficial to the community, like schools or churches.
Special Use Permit
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Includes facilities like places of worship, schools, cemeteries, and certain government properties.
Special Use or Special Purpose Real Estate
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A planned development where land is divided into parts with certain restrictions.
Subdivision
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Specific exception to a zoning ordinance applied on a case-by-case basis.
Variance
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Process of defining and enforcing land uses to implement a local master plan.
Zoning
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Intended to maintain a consistent look within a zoning area, affecting architecture or guidelines.
Aesthetic Zoning
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Regulations restricting density through building-specific measures like floor-area-ratios.
Bulk Zoning
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Using zoning to encourage land use for the highest and best purpose.
Directive Zoning
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Private association of homeowners developing and enforcing community rules.
Homeowner’s/Homeowners Association
(HOA)
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Allows for increased density with provisions for common good, like storefronts in high rises.
Incentive Zoning
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Human-made developments to real property that influence land use and value.
Modification
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Legally adopted rules by developers or associations, including covenants, conditions, and restrictions.
Private Land Use Controls
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Assessment to fund local municipal improvements.
Special Assessment
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Requesting a zoning amendment affecting only a specific entity or property.
Spot Zoning
