What is the difference between a Future Land Use and a zoning district?
A. Zoning is a tool to help implement the Town’s Comprehensive Plan. As a part of the Comprehensive Plan, the Future Land Use Element ws adopted to assign Future Land Use designations to various areas of the Town. The Future Land Use designation determines the general type of land use that is allowed (such as commercial, residential or industrial), provides for location criteria (or the reasons why they should exist in certain locations of the Town and not others) and the maximum density or intensity of those uses. Within each Future Land Use designation, certain zoning district classifications can be assigned to provide a more detailed category of regulations. The zoning districts are located in the Town Code, which is an instrument of regulation passed by the Town Council and must be consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.
