Anne Krieg, AICPBridgton Director of

Planning, Economic & Community Development

Zoning, Development and regulations at the local level

Early Urban form

• Religious, political and military hierarchy

• Planning for the elite in society• Wall and the citadel • Temple & public districts• Laws of the Indies 1573

Mesopotamia

Athens

Roman towns

Palmanova

Law of Indies 1573

• Site plan of Santiago de Leon [present-day Caracas, Venezuela]

• King Phillip II approved city plans• Set out city planning ordinances• Lot sizes – Peonia, caballeria• Main plaza sizing

Early zoning in the United StatesOrdinance of 17855th Amendment

NYC• 1811 Commissioners'

Plan• 1890 Jacob Riis

publishes his How the Other Half Lives

Urban Public Health as a Focus of Concern and the Beginnings of Regulation

The Industrial City grew from the Early Urban Settlement

1855 The London physician John Snow publishes his map of the cholera outbreak in Soho

The Birth of Land use Zoning

1886 statutes: San Francisco

1896 United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railway Co.

Turn of the Century Zoning 1901 New York State Tenement Housing Act 1906 Antiquities Act of 1906 1907 the first city planning commission established 1st NY zoning law (1916)

And then the feds got

involved

1924 U.S. Dept. of Commerce issues a Standard State Zoning Enabling Act

1926 Village of Euclid vs. Ambler Realty

The Father of Zoning

Edward Bassett

Post WWII zoning

• 1954 Berman vs. Parker• 1954 Youngtown, Arizona

Zoning in the 60’s takes a

turn in a new direction

More public involvement

1963 destruction of Penn Station

NEPA

The 70’s

• California passes the Coastal Zone Management

• Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Mount Laurel Township

The 80’s• Construction

of Seaside, • 1987 First

English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los Angeles

• 1987 Nollan Vs. California Coastal Commission

The 90’s

• 1992 Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council• 1994 Dolan v. City of Tigard

More recent happenings in zoning• 2005 The US Supreme Court

rules in favor of eminent domain

authority in the case Kelo v. City

of New London• Political shifts against zoning

• Form based codes

sources• National Association of Olmsted Parks:

http://www.olmsted.org/pages/philosophy.htm

• Cornell University: REMARKS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR LAYING OUT STREETS AND ROADS IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, UNDER THE ACT OF APRIL 3, 1807 William Bridges, Map Of The City Of New York And Island Of Manhattan With Explanatory Remarks And References. New York: William Bridges, 1811

• Encyclopedia of San Francisco• Urban Planning 540: Planning Theory

Prof. Scott Campbell University Of Michigan• World Commission on Environment and

Development. 1987. From One Earth to One World: An Overview. Oxford: Oxford University Press

• APA's "100 Essential Books of Planning• History Of Cities And City Planning By Cliff Ellis• Mark Damen USU• Casebriefs.com• William A. Fischel Dartmouth College

Department of Economics• My memory

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