AICP Functional Areas of Planning
Performance Zoning - answer Performance zoning, also called impact zoning or
flexible zoning, is an alternative technique to conventional zoning. Rather than
establishing specific area and bulk standards within zoning districts to govern
development, performance zoning regulates the design and location of a use based on
the characteristics of a particular site to support development. Under performance
zoning, municipalities replace conventional zoning districts with performance criteria to
guide development. The result can be an increase in the range of uses that may be
permitted and additional control over the effects of the land use. Landowners and
developers are provided greater flexibility on how to meet performance zoning
standards.
Performance Zoning Pros - answer Conserves energy by limiting inappropriate site
disturbance and reducing environmental disturbance;
Ensures that a proposed use is appropriate for the specific character of a site, and can
balance the level of development that the site can accommodate with minimizing
negative impacts on the environment;
Promotes natural resource protection and can limit adverse impacts on neighboring
properties;
Directs development to areas served by sewer and water service;
Establishes objective and quantifiable performance standards based on actual site
conditions;
Performance zoning recognizes the carrying capacity of a site within the development
process;
Provides the developer with the flexibility to respond to changing market conditions;
Encourages the development of wider range of housing types;
Reduces potential conflicts between incompatible land uses; and
Provides more discretion to the private sector in making decisions regarding the location
of land uses.
Performance Zoning Cons - answer Eliminates zoning districts and replaces them
with performance standards. Such a significant change can be challenging for a
municipality;
Requires additional technical expertise and cost to evaluate and monitor than required
under conventional zoning;
Reduced effectiveness in municipalities that do not have public water and sewage
facilities. Without this infrastructure, there is little ability to build anything other than low-
, density developments on lots large enough to support on-site water and sewer systems;
and
Permits developers wide discretion in the types of housing that are permitted to be built,
but may be opposed by residents if the new dwellings are unlike other dwellings in the
area.
Main Street Model - answer Marketing, managing, maintenance or as the website
said Economic Restructuring, Design, Promotion, organization with 8 guiding principles
Clarence Perry - answer Neighborhood Unit described in NYC and its Environs the
Regional Plan in 1929
Lawrence Veiller - answer Tenement acts -
Tenement House Act of 1879 - answer Old Law - Response to failure of 1867 which
required fire escapes and windows this encouraged the dumbell so their would be light
and air and created a shaft for garbage although they were not designed for that and
created a new sanitary nightmare
Tenement House Act of 1867 - answer Required fire escapes and windows in each
room - meaningless windows between rooms were installed - no air shafts
Tenement House Act of 1901 - answer Courtyards not airshafts and areas for
garbage removal
CERCLA - answer Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and
Liability Act - 1980 Superfund, puts burden on current owner so hard to sell and often
get foreclosed hence the fund to clean up sites and hopefully they can get funds from
the companies that polluted
Environmental Law Dates - answer 1970 NEPA
1970/63 Clean Air Act
1972 Clean Water Act
1973 Endangered Species Act
1974 Safe and Drinkable Water Act
1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
1980 CERCLA
What would be the size of this property? The S1/2 of the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section
12., Township 8 North, Range 6 West of the Fourth Principal Meridian.
A) 10 acres
B) 20 acres
C) 40 acres
D) 80 acres - answer The correct answer is B(20 acres).
Performance Zoning - answer Performance zoning, also called impact zoning or
flexible zoning, is an alternative technique to conventional zoning. Rather than
establishing specific area and bulk standards within zoning districts to govern
development, performance zoning regulates the design and location of a use based on
the characteristics of a particular site to support development. Under performance
zoning, municipalities replace conventional zoning districts with performance criteria to
guide development. The result can be an increase in the range of uses that may be
permitted and additional control over the effects of the land use. Landowners and
developers are provided greater flexibility on how to meet performance zoning
standards.
Performance Zoning Pros - answer Conserves energy by limiting inappropriate site
disturbance and reducing environmental disturbance;
Ensures that a proposed use is appropriate for the specific character of a site, and can
balance the level of development that the site can accommodate with minimizing
negative impacts on the environment;
Promotes natural resource protection and can limit adverse impacts on neighboring
properties;
Directs development to areas served by sewer and water service;
Establishes objective and quantifiable performance standards based on actual site
conditions;
Performance zoning recognizes the carrying capacity of a site within the development
process;
Provides the developer with the flexibility to respond to changing market conditions;
Encourages the development of wider range of housing types;
Reduces potential conflicts between incompatible land uses; and
Provides more discretion to the private sector in making decisions regarding the location
of land uses.
Performance Zoning Cons - answer Eliminates zoning districts and replaces them
with performance standards. Such a significant change can be challenging for a
municipality;
Requires additional technical expertise and cost to evaluate and monitor than required
under conventional zoning;
Reduced effectiveness in municipalities that do not have public water and sewage
facilities. Without this infrastructure, there is little ability to build anything other than low-
, density developments on lots large enough to support on-site water and sewer systems;
and
Permits developers wide discretion in the types of housing that are permitted to be built,
but may be opposed by residents if the new dwellings are unlike other dwellings in the
area.
Main Street Model - answer Marketing, managing, maintenance or as the website
said Economic Restructuring, Design, Promotion, organization with 8 guiding principles
Clarence Perry - answer Neighborhood Unit described in NYC and its Environs the
Regional Plan in 1929
Lawrence Veiller - answer Tenement acts -
Tenement House Act of 1879 - answer Old Law - Response to failure of 1867 which
required fire escapes and windows this encouraged the dumbell so their would be light
and air and created a shaft for garbage although they were not designed for that and
created a new sanitary nightmare
Tenement House Act of 1867 - answer Required fire escapes and windows in each
room - meaningless windows between rooms were installed - no air shafts
Tenement House Act of 1901 - answer Courtyards not airshafts and areas for
garbage removal
CERCLA - answer Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and
Liability Act - 1980 Superfund, puts burden on current owner so hard to sell and often
get foreclosed hence the fund to clean up sites and hopefully they can get funds from
the companies that polluted
Environmental Law Dates - answer 1970 NEPA
1970/63 Clean Air Act
1972 Clean Water Act
1973 Endangered Species Act
1974 Safe and Drinkable Water Act
1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
1980 CERCLA
What would be the size of this property? The S1/2 of the NW1/4 of the SE1/4 of Section
12., Township 8 North, Range 6 West of the Fourth Principal Meridian.
A) 10 acres
B) 20 acres
C) 40 acres
D) 80 acres - answer The correct answer is B(20 acres).
