so, i'm really kind of lost with the whole process of development.
let's say that i live on the urban fringe of a suburb. a new development sprouts up north of me and expands. so what exactly happened?
ok, so does the city zone out areas in advance to control what happens there? like they designated an undevelopped area sf-1 and the developpers followed through? but if it's on the fringe, would the city have zoning for it yet? or do potential developpers see a chunk of land they like and do subdivision applications for what they wanna see there and the city can only just annex it and zone it retroactively or...?
or what?
so basically i have all these terms being blown at me, and i have absolutely no idea what goes on when a chunk of land is being developped.
so, basically, here's what I as of now, with my pathetic amount of knowledge assume is happening:
a city has its whole zoning boundary thing mapped out. they take a look at where they expect they want to grow and look at development trends and zone out undevelopped lands accordingly. like say, there's a nice open field right by a highway and they zone it sf-1. some nice developpers come by and they apply for subdivision (i thought i used to know what part of speech subdivision was or what it even meant, but today's research on austin/dallas's development pages have muddled my brain) and then something about design sketches and then booya approval goes and the developpers build new stuff there.
but already there must be flaws in my assumption (aside from probably many many misunderstandings) since that sounds a lot like to me like urban growth boundaries, where developpers can only build where city say they can, and that's something that's only in a few areas. and if my assumption were the case, then the whole hassle of extending services to the new subdivisions wouldn't exist because it'd have been planned before.
what?
but maybe land-use and zoning varies from state-to-state?!
in short, someone please help me!
let's say that i live on the urban fringe of a suburb. a new development sprouts up north of me and expands. so what exactly happened?
ok, so does the city zone out areas in advance to control what happens there? like they designated an undevelopped area sf-1 and the developpers followed through? but if it's on the fringe, would the city have zoning for it yet? or do potential developpers see a chunk of land they like and do subdivision applications for what they wanna see there and the city can only just annex it and zone it retroactively or...?
or what?
so basically i have all these terms being blown at me, and i have absolutely no idea what goes on when a chunk of land is being developped.
so, basically, here's what I as of now, with my pathetic amount of knowledge assume is happening:
a city has its whole zoning boundary thing mapped out. they take a look at where they expect they want to grow and look at development trends and zone out undevelopped lands accordingly. like say, there's a nice open field right by a highway and they zone it sf-1. some nice developpers come by and they apply for subdivision (i thought i used to know what part of speech subdivision was or what it even meant, but today's research on austin/dallas's development pages have muddled my brain) and then something about design sketches and then booya approval goes and the developpers build new stuff there.
but already there must be flaws in my assumption (aside from probably many many misunderstandings) since that sounds a lot like to me like urban growth boundaries, where developpers can only build where city say they can, and that's something that's only in a few areas. and if my assumption were the case, then the whole hassle of extending services to the new subdivisions wouldn't exist because it'd have been planned before.
what?
but maybe land-use and zoning varies from state-to-state?!
in short, someone please help me!