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6 unusual facts about zoning


Adam C. Stacey

Stacey also fought against and helped defeat an attempt to rezone the entire northern half of Bath Township into a de facto business district by grandfathering in existing non-conforming business operations.

Combat Zone, Boston

Zoned out of the rest of Boston, the strip clubs have moved to the suburbs and become more up-scale.

Hangu District, Tianjin

The city zone is centrally located, on both sides of Jiyun River.

Iskandar Malaysia

To that end, the CDP includes two major subdivisions among land zones, "Basic Zoning Districts" and "Special Overlay Zones".

Rogers Middle School for the Creative and Performing Arts

The Pittsburgh City Council approved Conditional Use Zoning for Milliones Middle School on August 13, 2007, allowing the extension and interior renovations.

Shadow Hills, Los Angeles

The area is primarily equestrian zoned, one of the last remaining such sections within the City of Los Angeles.


Al Jaddaf

New developments in the area include Dubai Culture Village, a zoned community dedicated to visual, performing and literary arts, and the second phase of Dubai Healthcare City.

Algimantas Nasvytis

Some of his works include Neringa cafe and hotel in Vilnius (1960), detailed zoning plans for Vilnius (1971–1979), Seimas Palace (1982), Lithuanian National Drama Theatre (1982), Hotel Lietuva (1983), White Bridge across Neris (1995).

Amalgamation of the Halifax Regional Municipality

In 1996 the provincial government amalgamated all municipal governments within Halifax County to create HRM, a regional municipality comprising approximately 200 individual communities or placenames for civic addressing grouped into eighteen planning areas for zoning purposes.

Avenida de Mayo

Buschiazzo was also commissioned to design a number of the buildings along the avenue (among them, City Hall) after Mayor Miguel Cané enacted strict architectural zoning laws for the area facing the new thoroughfare.

Business license

In addition, Department of Health (DOH) issues certain professional licenses, District Department of Transportation (DDOT) regulates public space, and Office of Zoning (DCOZ) controls land use.

Camp Dearborn

During the Great Recession of 2008, Dearborn investigated selling off the camp but found that the camp was profitable and that there was no prospect of a reasonably profitable sale due to zoning issues.

Center City Residents' Association

CCRA heavily invests efforts in neighborhood zoning issues and additionally works on historic preservation, legislative advocacy, tree planting, manages the Schuylkill River Park Community Garden, holds membership events, runs a yearly tour of Center City Homes, and engages in many other activities designed to improve the neighborhood.

Coastal flood

Building regulations, coastal hazard zoning, urban development planning, spreading the risk through insurance and enhancing public awareness are some ways of achieving this.

Emerald Tower, Brisbane

The Brisbane City Council, however, were unable to stop the development, as the building complied with all regulations and zoning requirements, and so the Lord Mayor, Campbell Newman, asked the state government to stop the project.

Germania, Djursholm

The name Germania, referring to a people in northern Europe, was established in 1889 in the first zoning plan for the new garden town.

Health in All Policies

SFDPH has also worked with community partners to conduct a variety of HIAs, including assessing the impact of changes to the living wage ordinance, housing policies, and zoning policies.

Howard W. Davis

have conspired with . . . Alphonzo Bell, Samuel Traylor and Chapin A. Day, all multi-millionaires, to grant this group a special spot zoning permit to crush and ship . . . from the high-class residential section of Santa Monica, limestone and rock for cement.

John A. Giannetti, Jr.

His law practice represents businesses, families, and individuals and handles cases in criminal defense, business law, family law, and some zoning matters.

Kirrawee, New South Wales

These amendments changed the zoning to make the Princes Highway frontage commercial and the remainder "special uses".

Kostinbrod

The economy of Kostinbrod was largely based on poultry farming and stock breeding during the Communist period, but a number of factories, including a 120,000 m² Coca-Cola one, have emerged in democratic times due to the town's favourable position and the liberal zoning policy of the municipality.

Lotus, Florida

Lotus along with Tropic, south of the Pineda Causeway lost their identity as individual villages during the beginning of the Space Age in the 1960s as the entire area fell under single family residential zoning only as part of the larger Merritt Island.

Marvin Heemeyer

Outraged over the outcome of a zoning dispute, he armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete and used it on June 4, 2004, to demolish the town hall, the former mayor's house, and other buildings in Granby, Colorado.

Myrth York

York was appointed to the Providence Zoning Board of Review and was re-appointed by incoming Mayor Angel Taveras in 2011.

Pam Murray

Pam Murray voted against canceling zoning in Percy Priest Lake, for Sylvan Park historic zoning, for Lower Broadway historic zoning, for a Westin Hotel on Lower Broadway, and for rezoning Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.

Rankbach Railway

The Federal Railway Authority (Eisenbahn-Bundesamt) approved at the beginning of May 2007 the second "Sindelfingen" planning section and the Verband Region Stuttgart (which coordinates public transport in the Stuttgart Region) issued zoning approval for it.

Roosevelt, New Jersey

Due to unresolvable zoning issues for its dormitory and dining facilities, and local opposition to its presence, the yeshiva relocated to Monsey, New York after the yeshiva brought and lost several actions against the borough and certain individual borough officials in state and Federal courts.

Sack of Palermo

With hastily drafted zoning variances or in wanton violation of the law, builders tore down countless Art Deco palaces and asphalted many of the city's finest parks, transforming one of the most beautiful cities in Europe into a thick, unsightly forest of cement condominia.

Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel and Towers

After this incident, a written complaint of zoning violations was presented to the borough delegate, Virginia Jaramillo of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, of Cuauhtémoc, D.F., the borough of Federal District (D.F.) where the hotel is located.

Single-use zoning

Single zoning and urban sprawl have also been criticized as making work–family balance more difficult to achieve, as greater distances need to be covered in order to integrate the different life domains.

The Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

The first Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, (or "SZEA") was written by a New York City commission headed by Edward Bassett and signed by Mayor John Purroy Mitchel in 1916 to regulate buildings and land usage in New York City.

The effect of the zoning regulations on the shape of skyscrapers was famously illustrated by architect and illustrator Hugh Ferriss.

United States non-profit laws

Under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act many generally applicable state laws regarding employment, zoning and the like are relaxed for churches.


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