Harvard City Planing Studies, Vol. 5 PDF Download

Author: Arthur C. Comey
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780666177353
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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Excerpt from Harvard City Planing Studies, Vol. 5: Transition Zoning The present study by Arthur C. Gomey, Assistant Professor of City Planning at Harvard, is devoted to a hitherto neglected phase of zoning practice, the specialized treatment of the borders of zoning districts. It presents more suitable ways of regulating buildings, the open spaces around them, and the use of land so as to mitigate the detrimental effect to property on the edge of one zoning district resulting from the actual or prospective use of adjacent property in a less restricted district. The author's method has been to compile from an inspection of three fourths of all the zoning ordinances already adopted in the United States - as collected by the Library of the Harvard Schools of Landscape Architecture and City Planning all the instances of such transition zoning clauses, to arrange these in categories, selecting in each case a typical example for full quotation, and to round out the subject by a few additional model clauses covering certain features not now found in effect. The diagrams and photographs with accompanying references illustrate actual experience in various cities. Legal aspects are thoroughly dis cussed in the light of relevant cases. While some of the thirty-six principal categories of transition zoning methods obviously apply only in special circumstances, a considerable number would appear to be beneficial in almost any type of community; as, for example, to require, on a corner lot in a business district adjacent to a residence district on the side street, that business uses be confined to buildings fronting on the business street; to prohibit entrances to garages, except private garages, within, say, 50 feet of a residence district; to restrict specially the height of buildings along the boundary of a more restricted district; and, perhaps most important of all, to require front yards or setbacks on business frontage adjacent to residence frontage to equal the residential setback. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.