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Overview Planning can make communities safer. Techniques range from avoiding floodways and areas likely to be hit by landslides to designing around other natural hazards and creating human-built environments that discourage criminal activity. This...
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Overview Open space helps to shape a community and helps a community to breathe. Traditional parks provide opportunities for recreation and relaxation. Linkages planned through green infrastructure programs provide critical links in habitat and natural...
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Overview Local governments use zoning to regulate the use of land, the intensity or density of that use, and the allowable dimensions of buildings place on a particular site. The chapter introduces the idea of dividing the community into zoning...
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Overview Local governments make plans for public and private lands. Those plans are most important when someone proposes to change the use or development of a piece of land. Local governments make some decisions to change the use of land – such as when...