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Save yourself from having to fight a big-box proposal in the future by changing your community's land use and development policies. Our kits include a model ordinance, examples of cities that have enacted the policy, answers to common questions, key arguments in support of the approach, sample flyers, and other educational materials.
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Store Size Cap Ordinance
Hundreds of communities have enacted zoning rules that prohibit stores over a certain size. Store size caps help to ensure a diverse and competitive retail sector by not allowing a few large stores to dominate the local market. They foster small-scale, pedestrian-oriented business development and prevent the many negative impacts of big-box stores, such as increased traffic and over-burdened public infrastructure. The kit includes a model ordinance, examples of cities that have enacted size caps, answers to common questions, key arguments in support of the approach, sample flyers, and other educational materials. |
Economic & Community Impact Review
A growing number of cities are adopting policies that require proposals for big-box stores and shopping centers to undergo a comprehensive economic and community impact review in order to gain approval. Also see ILSR's New Rules Project for an overview of this approach and ordinance examples, and download A Guide to Retail Impact Analysis, which describes how retail impact studies are conducted and the types of data and analysis they provide. |
Retail Development Moratorium
Temporarily suspends retail development in order to allow a city time to consider the potential impacts and to revise local land use policies accordingly. |
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