Contextual Zoning Fine-Tuning Broad Categories A third wave of zoning changes involves what planners call contextual zoning, the fine-tuning of broad zoning categories, to limit the size and appearance of new buildings on side streets, while allowing higher density on major avenues.
In arguing against a preliminary injunction, it accuses the town of pandering to local opponents, violating the company's rights under the commerce clause of the United States Constitution and trying to enforce a vague and overly broad zoning requirement for site-plan approvals when business use intensified.
Mr. Mendik was also in the forefront of a campaign to block a broad new city zoning initiative that would have limited the height of skyscrapers, an issue made acute by Donald J. Trump's plan for the world's tallest residential building, now nearing completion near the United Nations complex.
On a more serious note, he said he hoped that the success of the micro-apartment project would lead to a broader reform of zoning laws to allow more similar developments.
The immediate area has several traditional low- and mid-rise office buildings, but the general commercial office zoning is broad enough to allow restaurants like the single-story, 8,800-square-foot Kitayama, which is to be demolished to make way for the senior home.
The immediate area has several traditional low-rise and midrise office buildings, but the office zoning is broad enough to allow restaurants like the single-story, 8,800-square-foot Kitayama, which would be demolished to make way for the senior home.
Other holes — still under construction on the warm Wednesday afternoon of my visit — take on broader issues related to zoning.
On Monday, Dec. 13th, the Adams County Board of Commissioners will take up this issue as part of a broader dialogue on county zoning policy.
More than 1,300 Sloatsburg residents, including 800 registered voters, signed a petition this spring opposing the Mayor's plan for a "floating zone," which would allow the Mayor and the Village Trustees to change zoning over a broad reach of the village on their own, bypassing the Zoning Board of Appeals.
A broad amendment of the 1961 zoning resolution is long overdue, said Norman Marcus, former counsel to the planning department and a member of the zoning committee of the American Planning Association.
The Planning Commission is one of the city's most influential agencies, with broad responsibility for shaping the zoning rules that determine both the face of the city and the profits or losses of property owners.
