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So whom the property owner can sum for special exceptions. There . boards are empowered to grant variances to permit owners to ■nake proper use of their property, rhey thus serve as a safety valve So the ordinance. Employing zoning chiefly, to :heck future undesirable develjpments is a negative aim. Zonng is better used as a communityJuilding tool. First of all, zoning can help preserve what is good and desirable in each community in the area. Unless guarded by guidelines to direct the flow of human activity into and over them, communities tend to erode like unprotected farm land. One bad use of property sometimes hurts an entire community. Zoning replaces chance, uncertainty and the unknown with surety and purpose. Haphazard growth soon leads to chaos, waste and distress in the use of property.' - Zoning promotes community stability. Everyone prefers his home, farm, business — whatever investment he may have — in a stable community.

Zoning facilitates the development of systems — good road systems, good fire protection systems, good policing systems — in contrast to stop-gap measures which hit-and-miss developments often impose.

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