Land use planning

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-015331",
  "term": "Land use planning",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Land Use Planning",
  "definitions": [
    "1. The process of evaluating and categorizing different activities occurring in a particular area, the human behavior patterns they create, and their effects on the environment.\n\n2. Land use planning is the never-ending process of inventorying and assessing the status, potentials, and limi-tations of a particular geographic area and its resources; interacting with the populations associated and/or con-cerned with the area to determine their needs, wants, and aspirations for the future; hypothesizing patterns of use compatible with both the area's capabilities and human needs and wants; proposing and assessing the consequences of, and implementing the best of alternatives for achieving the desired patterns of use, documenting the history of use to enable comparison of expected and experienced consequences; and repeating the entire process over and over to ac-count for changing environmental status, changing technology, and changing human wants.\n\n3. Land use planning is the process of organizing the development and use of lands and their resources in a manner that will best meet the needs of people over time while maintaining maximum flexibility for a dynamic combination of resource output for the future.",
    "Process for deciding the best use of each parcel of land in an area."
  ],
  "subject": [
    "Biological substances",
    "Ecosystems"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Resilience and Adaptation in New England (RAINE) Glossary",
    "After Camp 1974; USDA Forest Service Wildland Planning Glossary",
    "Nearshore Terrestrial Ecosystems Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/land-use-planning/"
}