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Sustainability Overlay Concept and Structure

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Chapter 1 outline.

Overlay Zoning Analogy

In land use planning, overlay zoning is a regulatory tool that creates a special zoning district, placed over an existing base zone(s), which includes special provisions in addition to those in the underlying base zone. The overlay district can share common boundaries with the base zone or cut across base zone boundaries. Regulations or incentives are attached to the overlay district to protect a specific resource or guide development within a special area.*

In land use and community planning, overlay districts are used for many different purposes: ...

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