LAND USE REGULATIONS (8)

Question 1

Absolute Land Ownership

Answer 1

Complete Bundle Of Rights belongs to owner to use, enjoy, dispose of and possess their property.

Question 2

Restrictive Covenant

Answer 2

A limitation/control on real property use imposed by the owner; a promise to do or not do an act relating to real property. Must be recorded.

Question 3

Deed

Answer 3

An instrument that conveys a grantor’s interest, if any, in real property.

Question 4

Deed Restriction

Answer 4

Limitation on Real Property use imposed by an owner through recorded language included in the deed.

Question 5

Title

Answer 5

The actual lawful ownership of real property and refers to holding the bundle of rights conveyed; not a document; a theory pertaining to ownership.

Question 6

Qualified Fee Estate

Answer 6

A fee estate in real property that may be defeated or undone if certain events occur or conditions are not met violating a deed restriction (Fee Simple Defeasible/Fee on Condition/Fee Simple Determinable)

Question 7

Restrictive Covenant Termination

Answer 7

End of a documented restriction by recorded due date, Release, Abandonment, change in property/owner circumstances

Question 8

Subdivision

Answer 8

Land divided into two or more parcels; a residential development.

Question 9

Setback requirements

Answer 9

Structures are located a specific distance between the front property line to the building line as well as from the front rear and side property lines.

Question 10

Doctrine of latches

Answer 10

Failure to assert rights in a timely manner, resulting in the cancellation of the deed restriction

Question 11

Police power

Answer 11

Constitutional power of state and local government to enact and enforce laws that protect the Public, health, safety, morals, and general welfare

Question 12

Escheat

Answer 12

When property reverts to the state after a person dies without leaving a valid will, and without errors or when property is abandoned. Assures that land is not ownerless.

Question 13

Eminent domain

Answer 13

Governments constitutional power to appropriate or condemn private property for public use as long as the owner is paid just compensation.

Question 14

Taking

Answer 14

When the government acquires private property for public use or burdens its use. The difference between a taking and eminent domain is that the property is regulated by a government authority to the economic detriment of the owner without just compensation.

Question 15

Interstate land, sales, full disclosure act 

Answer 15

An act regulated by HUD, which protects consumers from fraud and abuse in the sale or lease of land, preventing, shady, marketing schemes, which entice consumers to purchase land, site, unseen, requiring disclosure of a property report. 

Question 16

Comprehensive plan

Answer 16

Written document, prepared by a cities planning board that identifies the goals, objectives principles, guidelines, policies, standards, and strategies for growth and development of a community also referred to as a master plan.

Question 17

Density

Answer 17

The number of families that can inhabit a plot of land.

Question 18

Cul-de-sac

Answer 18

A dead-end street that does not connect to main roads/thoroughfares.

Question 19

Plat

Answer 19

Depict the arrangement of buildings, roads, and other services for a development 

Question 20

Infrastructure

Answer 20

Support facilities and services, including roads parks, sewers, water, schools, as well as police and fire protection.

Question 21

Demography

Answer 21

The study of social and economic status of a given area or population to determine if area can sustain the added burden of new development.

Question 22

Sunshine laws

Answer 22

1977. Law giving public the right to attend meetings or public bodies before a development is approved.

Question 23

Zoning ordinance

Answer 23

A determined area setting for type of use permitted under each zoning classification and specifies requirements for compliance, i.e. height, limit setback, etc.