"That does everything that zoning and landmarks laws try to prevent," he said.
"If we don't have that zoning ordinance on the book, we have no power to stop them," he said.
So much so, in fact, that the community board has asked that zoning be reviewed, to prevent overbuilding, said Karl Stricker, chairman of the land use committee.
On top of that, zoning in Teton County has long been designed to discourage density.
Mr. Spinella said that zoning commission documents made the homeowners' case for them.
Mr. Barth allowed that zoning restrictions can sometimes show their age.
However, he quickly learned that zoning ruled out a full-service restaurant.
The letter (see also below) said that zoning laws required Brookfield Properties to provide unobstructed access to the park.
Mr. D'Orazio contended that zoning for the lot would allow construction of a building as high as 60 floors.
And if you think that zoning in Phoenix will come to look ever more like that in California, then all the desert in the world might not matter.
There are so many banks — seventy, in just a few square miles — that zoning laws have been proposed to curb their creeping advance.
