Land Use & Zoning
The Minneapolis 2040 plan eliminated single-family-only zoning throughout the city. What was the primary goal of this policy?
ATo increase property tax revenue from commercial development
BTo increase housing supply and address affordability and equity concerns✓ Correct
CTo reduce the city's carbon footprint through density
DTo attract more commercial businesses to residential areas
Explanation
Minneapolis's 2040 plan made national headlines by allowing multi-family housing (duplexes, triplexes) throughout the city, eliminating single-family-only zoning. The primary goals were to increase housing supply to address affordability and to redress historical racial exclusion caused by exclusionary zoning.
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Zoning
Local government regulations that control land use by dividing areas into zones specifying permitted uses, building sizes, and densities.
VarianceOfficial permission to use land in a way that does not conform to the applicable zoning ordinance, granted by a zoning board when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship.
Eminent DomainThe power of government to take private property for public use, with the requirement to pay the owner just compensation.
Adverse PossessionA doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.
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