Principles Flashcards
Definition: Uniform standards of construction originating in NYC in 1916 to protect the health, safety, and welfare of people. It also regulates the use of land, light, air and open space while protecting property values and protecting against nuisances (factories in residential areas), undesirable businesses (porn shops near schools) and dangers (hazardous chemicals in public areas)
Zoning
Definition: Encourages private developers to provide amenities for public use in exchanges for opportunities to build larger and taller structures on a site.
Incentive Zoning
Definition: When a building is no longer permitted by the zoning ordinance, but is typically allowed to stay unless it is unsafe.
Nonconforming Use
Definition: A building that is permitted in an area that it is not zoned for, to benefit the public.
Conditional Use
Definition: Applied for by the owner on a private site to ask for a deviation from the ordinance in order to avoid hardship.
Variance
Definition: A change in the zoning ordinance for a specific area.
Spot Zoning
Definition: A municipal law.
Ordinance
Definition: Required open space measured between the property line and face of the building to preserve light, air, and spaciousness.
Setback
Definition: Utilized by communities principally to achieve planned street patterns and help insure buildings are not erected in the bed of projected streets of potential street widening.
Building Line
Definition: Legal right of government or another land owner to use one’s property for a specific purpose.
Easement
Definition: It prevents development that upsets something scenic to the public.
Scenic Easement
Definition: The valuation of property for the purpose of taxes.
Assessment
Definition: Used to fund public space improvements with the intention that it will enhance the area’s appeal and is paid for by all business owner’s who would benefit from it through increased taxes.
Business Improvement Districts
Definition: Power of the state to take private property without owner’s consent, but with fair market value of the land compensation and must be used for government or public development.
Eminent Domain
Definition: To place limitations on the use of the property, typically by the original developers, who determined what the land would be used for and cannot be changed by future owners.
Deed Restrications
