ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a whole host of inventions in zoning that seek to insert more flexibility into planning practice. Zoning regulations have been widely criticized for their relative lack of flexibility in terms of variety of uses, patterns of development, and ability to address design issues. Most traditional zoning regulations also assumed that individual lots in a district were all identical and developable under a blanket set of regulations. The flexibility of interim zoning and moratoria is not in the actual technique but in the time it takes for a community to revise existing regulations to better address a problem. Applicants with other urban farming issues such as community gardens or beekeeping that were already addressed by the existing regulations were permitted to submit applications pursuant to the interim regulations in place during the moratorium. The moratorium would provide the community with the opportunity to assess the demand for directional signs and to investigate best practices for their display.
