The Comprehensive Plan and the Specific Ordinance: Judges as Connoisseurs of Meaning

摘要

The toil and trouble all began with Herbert Hoover, This is not meant as a political charge over his failure to deal with the Great Depression, It is a simple statement of historical fact. During a brilliant career, before his election to the presidency, Hoover served as U.S. secretary of commerce. One of his decisions was to sponsor a national committee of distinguished city planners, architects, lawyers, political officials, builders, and developers to draft model legislation of land use controls to cope with the expanding tide of urban development and the pressures of population growth on limited land resources. The Advisory Committee on City Planning and Zoning that he appointed produced two important model acts: the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act (published in 1924 and revised two years later) and the Standard City Planning Enabling Act (published in 1928).