Locally Unwanted Land Use

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Locally unwanted land use, or "LULU", functions as a generic term for land uses which are perceived as being detrimental for neighburing land. LULUs may provide services that are needed in a community, but few want to live near them given their externalities, whether they are real or perceived.

Obvious LULUs include low-income housing projects, power plants, airports, prisons, halfway houses, and sewage treatment plants. LULUs also include strip mines, power lines, highways, dams, oil refineries, rail lines, military installations, junkyards, cemeteries, amusement parks, taverns, and sexusally oriented businesses.

Strip commercial development is often considered a LULU, as are many of its components — gas stations, car dealerships, repair shops, parking lots and garages, rental outlets, carwashes, motels, and drive-in restaurants. In some cases public parks, factories, stadiums, hotels, hospitals, marinas, office buildings, and residential developments (especially high-rises, suburban apartment buildings, and trailer parks) are perceived as LULUs. The most prominent LULUs are large, built by the public sector rather than private enterprise, and sited primarily by local governments.

The term was coined by Rutgers University urban planning professor Frank J. Popper in his paper "Sitting LULUs," printed in the April 1981 edition of Planning Magazine. [1]

See also

• NIMBY
• BANANA