Unit 20: Land-Use Controls and Property Development Flashcards
(21 cards)
A strip of land, usually used as a pre or designated for a similar use, separating land dedicated to one use from land dedicated to another use (e.g., residential from commercial).
Buffer Zone
An ordinance that specifies minimum standards of construction for buildings to protect public safety and health.
Building Code
Written governmental permission for the construction, alteration, or demolition of an improvement, showing compliance with building codes and zoning ordinances.
Building Permit
Permission by the municipal inspector to occupy a completed building structure after being inspected and having complied with building codes.
Certificate of Occupancy
Written governmental permission allowing a use inconsistent with zoning but necessary for the common good, such as locating an emergency medical facility in a predominantly residential area.
Conditional-use Permit
Zoning ordinances that restrict the maximum average number of housing sites per acre that may be built within a particular area, generally a subdivision.
Density Zoning
One who attempts to put land to its most profitable use through the construction of improvements.
Developer
State legislation that confers zoning and other powers on municipal governments.
Enabling Acts
A federal law that regulates the sale of certain real estate in interstate commerce.
Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (ILSA)
An equitable doctrine used by courts to bar a legal claim or to prevent the assertion of a right because of undue delay or failure to assert the claim or right.
Laches
A comprehensive government plan to guide the long-term physical development of a particular area.
Master Plan
A use of property that is permitted to continue after a zoning ordinance prohibiting it has been established for the area.
Nonconforming Use
A permit issued by the appropriate local governing body to establish that the property is suitable for habitation by meeting certain safety and health standards.
Occupancy Permit
A clause in a deed that limits the way the real estate ownership may be used.
Restrictive Covenant
The amount of space local zoning regulations require between a lot line and a building.
Setback
A tract of land divided by the owner, known as the subdivider, into blocks, building lots, and streets according to a recorded subdivision plat, which must comply with local ordinances and regulations.
Subdivision
One who buys undeveloped land, divides it into smaller, usable lots and sells the lots to potential users.
Subdivider
Permission obtained from zoning authorities to build a structure or conduct a use that is expressly prohibited by the current zoning laws; an exception from the zoning ordinances.
Variance
A regulatory tool that helps communities regulate and control how land is used.
Zoning
A board that must be formed when the local legislature adopts a new zoning law, to provide for property owners to object to the application of the law to their property.
Zoning Board of Appeals
An exercise of police power by a municipality to regulate and control the character and use of property.
Zoning Ordinance
