Zoning & Land Use
📋 What it is
Zoning is the city’s rulebook for what can be built where — homes, shops, factories — to keep uses that clash apart.
🗣️ Coach says
Zoning is why a smelly factory isn’t next to your bedroom. Cities sort land into zones — residential, commercial, industrial — so uses that clash stay apart and things that help each other sit close. It’s the city’s seating chart.
🧠 Memory hook
Zoning = the city’s rulebook for what goes where. Keep clashers apart.
😂 Giggle
Why did the city planner bring a pencil to the park?
To draw up some green space!
😲 Whoa!
Mixing homes, shops and parks close together (“mixed-use” zoning) can let people walk to most daily needs — cutting car trips a lot.
✅ Quick check: Why do cities use zoning to separate factories from homes?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
To keep clashing uses apart — noise, pollution and heavy traffic from industry would harm people living right beside it.
Zoning is the everyday tool that shapes how a city feels to live in.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Look around your neighbourhood and name one residential, one commercial, and one other zone.