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Locally Unwanted Land Uses (LULUs) Locally unwanted land use is a planning term. It is a land use that is useful to society, but objectionable to its neighbors. The acronym is LULU. Planning seeks to distribute and reduce the harm of LULUs by zoning, environmental laws, 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.
Locally Unwanted Land Use
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The term was coined in 1981 by Rutgers and Princeton University urban planning professor Frank J. Popper in his paper, " Siting LULUs" published in Planning Magazine. LULUs include facilities that may be socially desirable, obviously needed or legally required but nobody wants in his or her backyard. Such facilities may include adult uses, signs, religious institutions, half-way houses, correctional facilities, homeless shelters, pain clinics, gaming, hazardous waste treatment and disposal facilities, solid waste land fills and incinerators, recycling centers, low-income housing, and wastewater treatment facilities.