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Zoning in the United States — comprise land use state laws falling under the police power rights state governments may exercise over private real property. Origins and historySpecial laws and regulations were long made, restricting the places where particular businesses… … Wikipedia
zoning — The division of a city or town by legislative regulation into districts and the prescription and application in each district of regulations having to do with structural and architectural designs of buildings and of regulations prescribing use to … Black's law dictionary
variance — n. permission to bypass a regulation (legal) (US) 1) to grant a variance 2) to apply for a variance 3) a zoning variance disagreement 4) at variance with (a theory at variance with the facts) * * * [ ve(ə)rɪəns] [ permission to bypass a… … Combinatory dictionary
Variance — A measure of dispersion of a set of data points around their mean value. The mathematical expectation of the squared deviations from the mean. The square root of the variance is the standard deviation. The New York Times Financial Glossary * * *… … Financial and business terms
variance — Statistical term that quantifies the dispersion of data such as rates or prices around the mean. For example, highly volatile rates are rates that are sometimes high above the mean and sometimes way below the mean. Less volatile rates are… … Financial and business terms
variance — noun Date: 14th century 1. the fact, quality, or state of being variable or variant ; difference, variation < yearly variance in crops > 2. the fact or state of being in disagreement ; dissension, dispute 3. a disagreement between two parts of… … New Collegiate Dictionary
variance — var·i·ance / ver ē əns/ n 1: a disagreement between two documents or positions; esp: a disagreement between allegations (as in an indictment or complaint) and proof offered at trial that warrants an appropriate remedy (as a directed verdict or an … Law dictionary
zoning, density — n. Zoning that emphasizes clustered housing and aims for a particular population density. See also variance The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008 … Law dictionary
variance — mid 14c., fact of undergoing change, from O.Fr. variance, from L. variantia, from variare to change (see VARY (Cf. vary)). Meaning state of disagreement is recorded from early 15c. The U.S. zoning sense of official dispensation from a building… … Etymology dictionary
Variance (land use) — A variance is a requested deviation from the set of rules a municipality applies to land use known as a zoning ordinance, building code or municipal code. In today’s land use approval environment a variance request can be a fatal flaw for… … Wikipedia
