City of Kyle Comprehensive Planning Citizen Work Group

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City of KyleComprehensive Planning Citizen Work
Group
General Education And Land Use

• July 26, 2007
• James R. Earp, CPM
• Assistant City Manager

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Land Use

• Land use is the human modification of natural
  environment into built environment.
• Municipal land use Villages, cities, towns,
  boroughs, townships and counties are all governed
  by a set of designations assigned to particular
  parcels of land. Each designation, known as a
  parcels zoning, comes with a list of approved
  uses that can legally operate on the zoned
  parcel. These are found in a governments
  ordinances or zoning regulations.

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Land Use

• Provides legal justification for a communitys
  land use decisions and ordinances.
• Distinction between Land Use and Zoning
• What kind of things affect our future land use
  decisions?
• What ordinances will deal with land use?
• Why would we be concerned with the legal
  justification of either?

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Zoning Categories
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Zoning Categories
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Current Zoning Map
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Charter Requirements forComprehensive Plan

• NEXT MEETING
• AUGUST 16, 2007
• Land Use