Cap on maximum floor area valid, court rules. (Dimensional Limits).(Brief...

Land Use Law Report;  May 8, 2002 ;     673 words ......authorizes a municipality to impose a maximum floor area limit on residential development, the New...minimum lot. The R-5 zone also has a minimum floor area ratio of 0.4 and a maximum habitable floor area of 2,200 square feet. While Rumson Estates...

IFMA and BOMA announce common floor area measurement definitions.(Industry...

Sustainable Facility;  June 1, 2008 ;     172 words ......report outlining common definitions for floor area measurements as well as major revisions...measurement and industry comparisons based on floor area measurements. Currently, IFMA recognizes...Standard Classification for Building Floor Area Measurements for Facility Management...

Enabling act's definitions not binding on town.(Dimensional Rules)(New...

Land Use Law Report;  August 13, 2003 ;     700+ words ......frontage. The change also included a maximum floor area ratio of .40, and a floor area cap of 2,200 square feet for single-family...subdivision and a requested variance to exceed the floor area cap. Rumson Estates sued to overturn the floor...

Expanding? Maybe not

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  April 6, 2007 ;     700+ words ......More and more towns are turning to the "floor area ratio," a formula that caps a home's...So, local politicians turned to the floor area ratio last June. Now they're singing...there say. And a similar solution: the floor area ratio. "We got some really bad construction...

Long Grove won't downsize homes.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 10, 2007 ;     371 words ......zoning code as it is regarding the maximum floor area and height of homes. The plan commission...It also wanted to reduce the permitted floor area for most homes so that unusually large...000-square-foot lot would have had a permitted floor area of 3,500 square feet instead of ...

`Bonuses' fuel high-rise boom // Setbacks, plazas add up to more floors

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 28, 1988 ;     700+ words ......builders regularly add 50 percent or more floor area to skyscrapers beyond the basic allowance...controversy over downtown pileup. Extra floor area has run as high as 100 percent in downtown...Wacker, which roughly doubled its approved floor area; AT&T Corporate Center, and 900 ...

N. Hempstead closes zoning law loophole.

Newsday (Melville, NY);  September 13, 2006 ;     487 words ......this month, changes the way the gross floor area of residential structures is calculated. The previous code calculated gross floor area by adding the square footage of habitable...excluded from the calculation of gross floor area. When the homeowner took possession...

Cambridge loses bid for zoning change

Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (IL);  November 20, 1997 ;     501 words ......Edison Park Home property from the city's floor area ratio regulations. "We apply these rules...attached garages from the 45 percent floor area ratio of house-to-lot was premature...the 400-foot attached garages from the floor area ratio and told Koenig there were too...

City lowers ceilings on new construction

Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (IL);  September 13, 2001 ;     279 words ......ordinance changes the definition of gross floor area in a home so that the part of the floor area over which the ceiling is in excess of 12 feet will be counted twice when calculating floor area, city officials said. The amended ordinance...

Zoning code under review

Park Ridge Herald-Advocate (IL);  September 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ......discussion in coming months will be: the floor-area-ratio of house to lot (now 45 percent...rehabilitations that equal the maximum 45 percent floor-area-ratio of building to lot. Figures compiled...home sizes in 1992 averaged 42 percent floor-area-ratio; or 3,567 square feet of ...

Narrow zoning regs causing conflicts

Schaumburg Review (IL);  September 30, 2004 ;     311 words ...When village officials established floor area ratio regulations, they meant them to control...some new home construction in jeopardy. Floor area ratios (FAR) control the amount of buildable floor area in relation to the size of the lot. For...

Deerfield OKs teardown zoning

Lake Forester (Lake Forest, IL);  August 7, 2003 ;     658 words ......restricts the size of a new home using a floor area ratio of .4 (40 percent), and creates...his lack of absolute support for the floor area ratio provision prompted him to cast...Board instituted Deerfield's first ever floor area ratio of 0.4. This ratio effectively...

Teardown ordinance approved

Deerfield Review (IL);  August 7, 2003 ;     693 words ......restricts the size of a new home using a floor area ratio of .4 (40 percent), and creates...his lack of absolute support for the floor area ratio provision prompted him to cast...Board instituted Deerfield's first ever floor area ratio of 0.4. This ratio effectively...

central business height index

A Dictionary of Geography;      51 words ......height index A measure of the intensity of land use within the CBD . The total floor area of all storeys of a building is compared with the ground‐floor area of the building under consideration. The higher the index, the more intensive...

Teardown panel makes suggestions

Deerfield Review (IL);  March 6, 2003 ;     700+ words ......recommendation include three changes, a floor area ratio cap on rebuilds, a new way of measuring...of a home. A first-ever limitation on floor area ratio, which governs the "bulk" of the home, to 0.40, or the ratio of the floor area of the house on all floors to the total...