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Line 1: [[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, ~~only~~after a ~~few~~land-speculation ~~years~~and ~~after~~overbuilding ~~citywide~~crisis. ~~zoning~~LA ~~was~~had 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. A related line of thinking, we think, has been articulated more recently by Chuck Marohn, founder of the StrongTowns movement, in his arguments for "incremental development," in which most places are allowed to evolve to a somewhat higher step of use intensity, but it is limited so that land values do not go beyond what is likely feasible or development becomes unsustainable.  Line 36: @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.]" ''Urbanize.la, ''10 Jan 2018. <br/> [https://urbanize.la/post/25-solutions-builder’s-perspective-fix-california-housing-crisis https://urbanize.la/post/25-solutions-builder%E2%80%99s-perspective-fix-california-housing-crisis].<br/>   Marohn, Chuck. “[https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/30/podcast-a-conversation-about-market-urbanism Podcast: A Conversation About Market Urbanism.]” (interview with Scott Beyer). Strong Towns, 30 August 2017.<br/> [https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/30/podcast-a-conversation-about-market-urbanism. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/30/podcast-a-conversation-about-market-urbanism. ]<br/>   Recode LA. "[https://recode.la/updates/news/brief-history-planning-zoning-los-angeles A Brief History of Planning & Zoning in Los Angeles.]" January 06, 2014.<br/>   Rosenberg, Jeremy. “[https://www.kcet.org/history-society/the-roots-of-sprawl-why-we-dont-live-where-we-work The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work.]” KCET, March 19, 2012.<br/> https://www.kcet.org/history-society/the-roots-of-sprawl-why-we-dont-live-where-we-work. <br/>   Strong Towns. “[https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/16/incremental-development Incremental Development.]” 5 December 2015. [https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/16/incremental-development https://www.strongtowns.org/curbside-chat-1/2015/12/16/incremental-development].<br/>   Weiss, Marc A. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXjddnZYyLYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q=overzoning&f=false The Rise of the Community Builders: The American Real Estate Industry and Urban Land Planning.] 2002. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXjddnZYyLYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q=overzoning&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ZXjddnZYyLYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q=overzoning&f=false].