What we must work with today is based on a 1926 model act by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, and its model Standard City Planning Enabling Act of 1928.

The material on the Standard Zoning Enabling Act and the Standard City Planning Enabling Act that appears in Chapter 1, Section 3 of the new edition of the casebook provides rich teaching ...

The committee drafted the Standard Zoning Enabling Act (SZEA), which was model legislation states could adopt that empowered municipalities to create local zoning ordinances.

The zoning ordinance is responsible for the way skyscrapers withdraw progressively as they rise. New York’s legislation led to the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act , the blueprint for zoning ...

Within a decade of New York’s lead, the federal Standard State Zoning Enabling Act had created a model for states to follow, which made this power apparent.

Relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to the zoning enabling acts, which largely derived from the federal Standard State Zoning Enabling Act.

It was Republican Herbert Hoover who used his authority as the Secretary of the Department of Commerce to create a “standard zoning enabling act” that all 50 states used as templates for their ...

Nearly a century ago, the Connecticut Legislature adopted the “Standard Zoning Enabling Act” (now Chapter 124 of the General Statutes), which authorizes municipalities to enact local zoning ...

For those with an eye towards history, we are coming up on the 100th anniversary of the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (SZEA). Whether this is the appropriate year for celebrating (or shaking ...