ABSTRACT
How can planners more explicitly embrace the ways in which zoning change actually happens? To better advance equity outcomes through zoning and land use practices, land use practitioners can leverage knowledge of how changes in land use come about-in practice-and when and how these changes intersect with the formal tools of zoning. With institutional and forensic lenses, this chapter proposes a scaffolding of zoning practice that identifies common patterns in the way zoning gets done, clustered across the broad themes of power and embeddedness, rules and relief, legibility and legitimacy, and enforcement.
