Overzoning: Difference between revisions

[[File:CASP-Cornfield-Arroyo-Seco-Specific-Plan.jpg|thumb|right|500px|CASP plan, LA, cited as example of over-zoning]] Overzoning is when land is [[Zoning|zoned]] (i.e. allocated and planned) for too high an intensity of use, leading to problems such as development of the land being infeasible (due to high land prices or expectations of owners) or inappropriately distributed. 

The concept apparently first arose in Los Angeles in the mid-1920s, onlyafter a fewland-speculation yearsand afteroverbuilding citywidecrisis. zoningLA washad established comprehensive zoning, the first in the U.S., in 1904. According to [Weiss 2002], related ideas were widely discussed in the last 1920s and early 1930s by planning officials around the U.S.

<div style="clear: both">from @HousingForLA. "[https://urbanize.la/post/25-solutions-builder’s-perspective-fix-california-housing-crisis 25 Solutions From A Builder’s Perspective To Fix The California Housing Crisis]":&nbsp;&nbsp;</div> <div style="clear: both">&nbsp;</div> <blockquote><div style="clear: both">'''''11. Audit Planning Documents Regularly To See If They Are Creating Housing – Be Careful Not To Over Zone'''''<br/> &nbsp;</div> <div style="clear: both">''Los Angeles’ Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan “CASP”...passed over four years ago, it has not produced a single unit of new housing.<br/> <br/> "Zoning this land with that much FAR prices the land for that much FAR. It is very hard to build a building with more than 4.0 FAR with wood, which necessitates steel construction and higher costs. &nbsp;With land prices in the Urban Village priced for complex buildings, understandably no one has the guts to be the first to pay the high land price and build an expensive building in an industrial wasteland."''</div> </blockquote> <div style="clear: both">&nbsp;</div> <div style="clear: both">&nbsp;</div>