§ 7-101. Local authority.

   To encourage the preservation of natural resources or the provision of affordable housing and to facilitate orderly development and growth, a local jurisdiction that exercises authority granted by this division may enact, and is encouraged to enact, local laws providing for or requiring:

   (1) the planning, staging, or provision of adequate public facilities and affordable housing;

   (2) off-site improvements or the dedication of land for public facilities essential for a development;

   (3) moderately priced dwelling unit programs;

   (4) mixed use developments;

   (5) cluster developments;

   (6) planned unit developments;

   (7) alternative subdivision requirements that:

      (i) meet minimum performance standards set by the local jurisdiction; and

      (ii) reduce infrastructure costs;

   (8) floating zones;

   (9) incentive zoning; and

   (10) performance zoning.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 66B, § 10.01(a); 2012, ch. 426, § 2.