Exclusionary zoning

sign from Country Club District, Kansas City, developed 1906-1950. Image from the State Historical Society of Missouri

Exclusionary zoning is the utilization of zoning ordinances to exclude certain types of land uses, or -- explicitly or implicitly -- certain groups of people, from residence in a given community. 
 

 

 

References

• Davidoff, Paul, and Neil Newton Gold (1971). "Exclusionary Zoning." Yale Review of Law and Social Action: Vol. 1: Iss. 2, Article 5.
  Available at: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yrlsa/vol1/iss2/5.
   
• Mangin, John (2014). "The New Exclusionary Zoning." Stanford Law & Policy Review, vol 25 issue 1, 91 (2014).
   
• Wikipedia. "Exclusionary zoning."