ABSTRACT
The Model Regulations developed in the commentary demonstrates how subdivision regulations can accomplish a community's goals and objectives. The general purpose is to identify the problems concerning subdivision regulations nationally and to suggest various solutions to these problems based on existing legislation. The Model Subdivision Regulations include traditional components of subdivision control, but they also include provisions designed to reflect developments in the law. At present, subdivision regulations are a tool for fashioning development in defined ways and by prescribed methods, regulating the use of private land in the public interest. But prior to 1928, the purpose behind subdivision regulations was to provide a more efficient method for selling land, permitting a seller to record a plot of land by dividing it into blocks and lots, laid out and sequentially numbered. The Standard City Planning Enabling Act by the Department of Commerce, was offered in that year as partial answer to the problems created by land speculation and premature subdivision.
