Unit 20 - Land Use Controls and Property Development

Question 1

Its necessary for a certain amount of land to be owned by the government for what uses?

Answer 1

1. Municipal Buildings
2. State Government Buildings
3. Schools
4. Military Bases

Question 2

Local governments, municipalities, and counties establish development goals by creating what?

Answer 2

A comprehensive plan

Question 3

Define a Comprehensive Plan

Answer 3

A guide to planning for change rather that reacting to proposals

Question 4

How long is a Comprehensive Plan for?

Answer 4

20 years

Question 5

What is included in a Comprehensive Plan?

Answer 5

1. Land Use
2. Housing Needs
3. Movement of people and goods
4. Community of facilities and utilities
5. Energy Conservation

Question 6

Define Zoning

Answer 6

A regulatory tool that helps communities regulate and control how land is used

Question 7

Define Zoning Ordinances

Answer 7

Local laws that implement the comprehensive plan and regulate and control the use of land and structures within designated districts

Question 8

How are zoning ordinances conferred?

Answer 8

By enabling acts

Question 9

What does Zoning affect?

Answer 9

1. Permitted Uses
2. Lot Sizes
3. Building Heights
4. Setbacks

Question 10

Define a Buffer Zone

Answer 10

Typically a strip of land separating land dedicated to one use from land dedicated to another use

Question 11

Define Taking

Answer 11

Similar to eminent domain in that it comes from the takings clause of the 5th Amendment

Question 12

The eminent domain or taking is enacted, property owners must be what?

Answer 12

Compensated for their land and real property

Question 13

Why is there a Zoning Hearing Board?

Answer 13

To hear complaints about the effects a zoning ordinance may have on specific parcels of property

Question 14

Define Nonconforming Use

Answer 14

When a lot or an improvement doesnt conform to the zoning law because it existed before the enactment of the zoning ordinance

Question 15

What is a Conditional Use Permit

Answer 15

Usually granted to a property to allow a special use of property

Question 16

What does a Variance do?

Answer 16

Provides relief if zoning regulations deprive an owner of the reasonable use of the property

Question 17

Define Building Codes

Answer 17

Codes that specify construction standards that must be met when repairing or erecting building

Question 18

Define Density Zoning

Answer 18

Restrict the average maximum number of houses per acre that may be built within a subdivision

Question 19

Define Restrictive Covenants

Answer 19

Limitations to the use property imposed by a past owner or the current owner and are binding on future grantees

Question 20

Define CC&R’s

Answer 20

Covenants, conditions and restrictions are private rules set up by the developer that set standards for all the parcels within a subdivision

Question 21

A restrictive covenant that restricts conveyance based on race, color, religion or national origin is what?

Answer 21

Void

Question 22

Why what the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act created?

Answer 22

To facilitate regulation of interstate land sales and to protect consumers from fraud

Question 23

Why was the Land Sales Registraction Act created?

Answer 23

To regulate the sale or promotion to Illinois residents of subdivided land outside of Illinois