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Zoning is a law that divides a jurisdiction's land into districts, or zones, and limits how land in each district can be used. [1][2] In the United States, zoning includes various land use laws enforced through the police power rights of state governments and local governments to exercise authority over privately owned real property.
5 Αυγ 2019 · From the beginning, U.S. zoning has embodied a contradiction: Its stated legal purpose is that cities must be rationally planned to avoid ugly spillovers. Thus, most states require regular comprehensive plans as a precondition to zoning.
28 Ιουν 2017 · To understand the legal underpinnings of US zoning, it is important to understand two legal concepts: nuisance and police power. In essence, nuisance law concerns cases where one person’s activity has a negative effect on another person’s property.
27 Αυγ 2020 · This Article discusses the underdeveloped law of groundwater recharge. It explains why groundwater-recharge law, or the lack thereof, is important; it discusses existing legal doctrines that affect groundwater recharge, occasionally by design but usually inadvertently; and it explains how more intentional and effective systems of
19 Ιουν 2012 · The story of American zoning is really the story of how Americans learned to legislate their NIMBY impulses. Before zoning, cities mostly regulated what could be built through nuisance laws.
In California, Nebraska, and Texas, three of the largest groundwater-using states in the United States, state laws commonly allow withdrawals from an aquifer at a rate faster than the rate of recharge (Western Water Policy Review Advisory Commission 1998), and “most decisions regarding groundwater development, use, or protection are made with ...
29 Ιουλ 2016 · Recharge areas are those areas that provide the primary means of replenishing groundwater. Good natural recharge areas are those where good quality surface water is able to percolate through the sediments and rocks to the saturated zone which contains groundwater.
