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are the five or six key eler~ents we want to maintain?" Making
<br />these intentions clear in tl~e text of the ordinance will help
<br />applicants know what is r{~quired.
<br /> Most guidelines focus ~pn spacing requirements for similar
<br />structures. As previously r~entioned, Salinas's design guidelines
<br />for low-density residential~districts recommend that a model
<br />should not appear more o~ten than every fourth house. Carol
<br />Stream and Tinley Park, Olinois, prohibit identical front
<br />elevations on adjacent lots~, Tinley Park also stipulates that no
<br />more than 25 percent of ~[omes on a block can have the same
<br />front elevation. Carol Stream is a little stricter, allowing only 20
<br />percent. New Lenox and ~mont, Illinois, do not allow
<br />identical front elevations ~ithin two lots of each other and allow
<br />no identical front elevations on cul-de-sac turnarounds.
<br />Affordable Housing Policy
<br />When drafting a monotor~y contro, l, carefully consider how the
<br />policy will affect your conjmunity s efforts to establish
<br />affordable housing. This iisue raises some very difficult
<br />questions. Is the monoron~g control intended to increase the
<br />quality of new housing std, ck? Will that inflate the cost of
<br />housing? Does forced vari{ty diminish the developer's profit
<br />margin by eroding the eccgaomy of scale?
<br /> Some argue that peoplei will spend money to personalize
<br />their monotonous homes,lbut if that s the case, ~s ~t cheaper for
<br />a developer to personalize jt at the time of construction? Do the
<br />purchasers of entry-level h~using have the means to personalize
<br />their homes? Ultimately, do people need just a roof or a
<br />distinctive roof over their fieads? Planners are likely to hear these
<br />questions at public meetinSgs.
<br />
<br />Going Through:
<br />the Hoops
<br />
<br />For some residents of unir(corporated western St. Louis County,
<br />March Madness had less t4 do with the NCAA college
<br />basketball tournament tha~ with a county zoning code
<br />restricting basketball hoop} in residential neighborhoods. The
<br />result has been a challengeiin conflict resolution for the county
<br />planning commission. Th{ code bars most freestanding
<br />structures--including bask~etball poles and storage sheds--from
<br /> ~ ,
<br />front yards or driveways wgth~n six to eight feet of the property
<br />line, depending on the sizgof the lot.
<br />
<br /> The debate among the neighbors has been clear and
<br />simple. Hoop opponents, who have filed 51 complaints in
<br />the last two years, say the code has not been enforced, They
<br />cite noise, not aesthetics, as the primary nuisance. But those
<br />supporting the hoops maintain that, with growing concerns
<br />over crimes against children, the ordinance drives children
<br />out of their own front yards to play in places without
<br />parental supervision.
<br /> As county planning director Joseph Cavato told the St. Louis
<br />Post-Dispatch, "There is no easy answer to this one." The
<br />controversy was not potent enough, however, to draw families
<br />to a March 14 hearing. Only one citizen on each side of the
<br />debate attended, even though 11 families were recently cited for
<br />violations. One possible reason for the official apathy in the face
<br />of all the grousing: Even if a family removes its freestanding
<br />basketball pole, it can legally relocate the hoop itself to the front
<br />of the garage. Dan Biver
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<br />State, and Local Government Law, American Bar Association, 750
<br />N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611. 1993. 260pp. $59.95.
<br /> Planners who work in states with mandated growth
<br />managemen, t planning undoubtedly are already well aware of
<br />the important changes in local planning and zoning that such
<br />legislation brings. As more states undertake growth management
<br />at the state and regional level, and as the laws evolve in states
<br />that began much earlier, planners will increasingly find it
<br />necessary to update themselves on the legal and practical
<br />framework of growth management and its implications for their
<br />work and their communities. This volume combines
<br />contributions from several of the most prominent growth
<br />management experts, including John DeGrove, David Callies,
<br />and Robert Burchell, discussing the evolution of growth
<br />management legislation in the various states.
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