Residential Land Development

With Massachusetts State spending on affordable housing and open space at a historic low, when considered as a percentage of the total budget, the production of dwelling units and the conservation of land have become the responsibility of local government, but cities and towns do not build housing, except in rare circumstances. As well they do not routinely buy expensive tracts of open land,

Based on the journey taken by a research, over a four year time period, this study covers the attempt to build a self-sustained livelihood on a 1000 square meter plot of land in South Africa. The four focus points of the self-sustained were and owner built dwelling, farming produce, rain and energy harvesting, and waste disposal. The main goal was to build this small settlement and live off the land. The researcher ran into some government interference as a result of contradictions in zoning and led to the restructure of theses zoning restrictions to allow such settlements. This article touches on the rarely talked about, but important, topic of government land zoning. I felt this was an appropriate issue to cover because it was not easy to find information about such thing and I believe they are often overlooked.

　　From the synthesis map, you can see there are some suitable to unsuitable places for the land development. Overall, there is approximately 70 percent of the land suitable for development with caution. For example, people should consider what kind of slope it is like the steeper slope always has a high risk of mudslides, and what kind of surficial material it is like tills are more stable than coastal sediments. Moreover, there is over 20 percent are suitable for development. Most of them occur around the coast. The reason is the coast has unstable materials that is risky to do the construction. Also, the coastal area are risky

In the communities I grew up in, there were frequent changing circumstances that actually left my family not really as part of the community. From dingy, cheap and tiny places for rent, there has been significant points brought to the attention of the reader in this book that could attribute to the failure and success of neighborhoods. In Suburban Nation, the opening pages give a lot of insight on the issues that can come from these big and fancy, new housing developments.

The land, local people’ opinions and their feelings, must be taken into consideration, and furthermore.

hard for people to buy their own land, which is why it was only a

Community: general effects on residential property, community facilities and communities as a whole: e.g. effects on public footpaths, bridleways, parks and gardens. Temporary presence of construction workers;

With this suburban expansion, there is a lack of agricultural land, because the available land that was normally used to farm is being bought up by developers to create new housing and communities.

Urban sprawl is quite commonplace in most suburban communities and usually make way for many problems alongside it. With residents come needs of the people such as work spaces, commercial centres and institutions. While although the community of Morningside Heights may be abundant in many things such as institutions and industrial land, the focus on dealing with urban sprawl has led to the lack of focus on other needs of a community. Here, a large influx of people coming into the community without enough residential area to sustain a rapidly growing population. As much as the community has been expanding into the area which was once a golf club, there is not enough land, or money to build housing to sustain the number of people coming in. In addition there is the problem of the environmental impact; habitats being destroyed for the sake of this housing.

Some developers may wish to gentrify the area, realizing the potential for luxury housing close to the water and downtown core. The gentrification process would mean creating housing for the upper and middle class citizens while displacing low-income residents (City of Victoria, 2014). Another possibility for Rock Bay is that the First Nations community would buy the land after remediation and partner with developers to establish a commercial industry (Wilson & Dedyna, 2015). Additionally, the local government has proposed Rock Bay as one of the potential sites for a sewage treatment center in Victoria (Wilson & Dedyna, 2015). From our group’s assessment observations Rock Bay is an area in transition with many possibilities for development, and the future of the community is

Furthermore, it also represents a great compromised to those who advocate for it, because while communities might be facing the changes done by it, there would still be parcels of land entrusted to community stewardship. Right now Austin is currently just doing single plots of land, but what if other trusts invested in whole city blocks or neighborhoods? Such in areas like Detroit, where housing is affordable and in need of community investment that will give back, whole areas could be possibly saved from losing their character and identity in the process. This is in a way, responsible gentrification because individual communities themselves as well as their residents taking control of their communities and not outside speculators. According of Melora Hiller the executive director of the Community Land Trust Network, other cities such as Baltimore, Maryland are forming trusts to turn vacant homes for the homeless, so not only are these helping the alleviate the fears of lower income people they are also helping to fight back against a social issues that have long been ignored. Therefore, this source was very informative for my paper, because it helped to shape my part of my solution for gentrification, which is we need more individuals and communities to take

You have lived in your dream home that you designed for over twenty years. It is in a middle class tree lined family neighborhood. You have raised five upstanding children, two who are still living at home. You find out that a drug and alcohol rehab center has bought your neighbor’s home and plan on putting 16 people who are recovering from drugs and alcohol in this home. What is your reaction? Do you have any say in the matter? What do the laws say? Most of us do not worry about this situation or ever think it can happen to us. It can and it does. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act or the ADA guidelines a drug user who is currently participating in a

Community is established locally but community development is a process that includes actors from inside and outside of the community to achieve sustainability. My previous essays have addressed the progression of community development from place-based attachment, organizing and advocacy to addressing the need and effect of government involvement. The final stop on the continuum of the community development is to analyze market-based approaches to community development. This paper will look at how a market based approach to community development is an important component of community development because it is the appropriate response to the current socio-economic, and political context that our country is in. A market-based approach provides a mechanism to define relationships and allocate economic resources to create systemic change within communities. increasing opportunities for social inclusion and economic sustainability

In this paper I will be discussing # issues that are going to be major threats to residential developers and builders within the premises of the City of Calgary. First thing this essay will discuss is the introduction of the new Off-Site Levy amendment within the Municipal Government Act. This section will talk about the monetary effects of the new amendment as well as outlining where developers and builders will end up doing further developments going forward. Second, I will introduce the topic of the oil and gas sector and the threat it is making of residential development in Calgary. I will review current and past statistics to verify that in fact the decline in the oil and gas sector has a direct negative effect of the

In the wake of the aforementioned factors and address resulting problems, previous and present governments of Ghana have made attempts to streamline the system through land policies and projects. The Land Administration Projects (LAP) is currently being implemented (Government of Ghana, 2008). This