Real Estate and Home Design

Urban planning ordinance must comply with the provisions of urban planning that provides the United States Constitution. An ordinance of urban planning can be illegal if it amounts to unconstitutional appropriation of property thereby violating the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

This happens if a municipality enacts a law that prohibits certain types of development on a plot of land and limited, thus the allowable development potential. (more…)

Urban planning refers to laws divide cities into different areas depending on usage, which varies from family homes to industrial plants. Urban planning ordinances control the size, location and use of buildings within these different areas.

Urban planning serves to divide a municipality properly in different districts or areas and thus assign different land uses for each district. Generally, a city planning commission is responsible for separating the land-use categories (residential, industrial, commercial or agricultural). In some cases, further distinctions are made as the division of industrial districts in light or heavy industries, or the division of residential districts:

- houses
- multiple family dwellings of low density
- residential medium density multiple family
- multiple family dwellings, high-density (more…)