Zoning and Land Use Principles

Question 1

Describe a business improvement district

Answer 1

Property owners agree to an increase in the district’s tax rate, and the revenue from the tax increase is used to fund improvements inside the district.

Question 2

What is a cap park?

Answer 2

A cap park provides a park over a segment of a freeway to encourage people to move through the space going from one area to another.

Question 3

Conservation zoning

Answer 3

Requires the clustering of homes while preserving open space.

Question 4

Prescriptive easement

Answer 4

Typically obtained under principles of adverse possession (earned through the ongoing and regular use or an otherwise unused property). Allows the right to use the property and does not allow the user to gain title to the land.

Question 5

Urban growth boundary

Answer 5

Regional boundary that limits sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary are used for higher density urban development and the area outside be used for low density development, such as agriculture.