ABSTRACT
Zoning is alive and well, and is living in every urban and suburban neighborhood…. People love zoning! Its the greatest thing since sanitary sewers. Planners tend to forget that zoning is a political exercise. People can become involved in the zoning process: they can see it, they can identify with it, and they can show up at meetings….
Zoning in the future will be different—no doubt about that. It will make use of two techniques that are rapidly gaining strength [exactions and special districts]. And a third technique is shaping up in the wings [quantitative zoning].
Richard Babcock, “The Outlook for Zoning,” Urban Land, 1984.
