Locally unwanted land use is a planning

Planning

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 term. It is a land use that is useful to society, but objectionable to its neighbors. The acronym is LULU.

LULUs can include power plants, dumps

Landfill

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, prison

Prison

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s, road

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s, factories

Factory

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, hospital

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s and many other developments. Planning seeks to distribute and reduce the harm of LULUs by zoning

Zoning

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, environmental law

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s, community participation, buffer areas, clustering, dispersing and other such devices. Thus planning tries to protect property and environmental values by finding sites and operating procedures that minimize the LULU’s effects.

LULUs always provide services a community needs, but few people want to live near them because of their externalities, real or perceived.

The term was coined in 1981 by Rutgers

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 and Princeton University

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 urban planning

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 professor Frank J. Popper in his paper, "Siting LULUs" published in Planning Magazine

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.http://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/popper.html