CITB01H3 Chapter 16: Land Use Regulation Tools for Plan Implementation ("Planning Canadian Communities" Textbook)
Document Summary
Zoning grew out of the early observation about city development that similar uses tend to congregate in areas separate from other uses. Further, when congregated in their distinctive areas, the land uses and activities. In north america, the first comprehensive zoning bylaw was enacted by the city of. New york in 1916: the first such canadian zoning bylaw was enacted in 1924 for kitchener, Ontario, and was formulated by planers thomas adams and horace seymour: a comprehensive zoning bylaw established districts for the entire community. Zoning practice developed along the same general lines in canada and the united. In the united states, the validity (constitutionality) of zoning bylaws was not confirmed as a power available to municipalities until it had been tested by the. Us: this constitutional difference has given rise in canada to the complementary practices of development control and site-plan control, which allow a municipality to specify certain land use regulations on a property-by-property basis, substantive focus:
