Talk:Inclusionary zoning

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Beyond prioritizing under-privileged families to the detriment of wealthy families, are there disadvantages to inclusionary zoning? LegCircus 22:24, 16 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Question about relevance

I think parts of this article may be misplaced. I tried to add detail to the definition of the term as it is used. In general, inclusionary zoning is not really zoning per se. It is more of a planning guideline that developers negotiate on a per-project basis, sometimes to get conditional use permits or variances, and sometimes just to get permission to build. All it refers to is the practice of including a set number of below-market-rate units in a given project.

The stuff about zoning being used to exclude people is perfectly true, and it is probably more true now than ever, but I'm not sure it's germane to this item. Ie the fact that zoning excludes people is not really addressed by inclusionary zoning; if that were the case existing neighborhoods would be rezoned to accomodate more modest houses, and lets not hold our breath. The two issues are different and happen to have similar names.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.79.49 (talk • contribs) April 4, 2006

Thank you for your contributions, and posting to this talk page. Your edits are helpful, they reflect some study on zoning and planning. The exclusionary nature of zoning practices is necessary to explain the term "inclusionary", so that is why it is germane to this article. At the level of editing you are doing, it useful to register with Wikipedia and sign your comments using four tildes (~~~~) to reflect who is making the edits. I'm out of time right now to respond to your edits, but while I agree with many of things you added, some is unsupported and controversial, and some content you removed need to be restored. Castellanet 16:56, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Seeing no response, I have restored deletions, and revised the section for accuracy. Please respond on this page with any objections to those edits. Thanks. Castellanet 00:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)