A Practice Note providing an overview of the basic legal concepts, authorities, regulations, and procedures relating to zoning and land use law. This Note discusses eminent domain, regulatory takings, federal environmental regulation, zoning administrators, planning commissions, zoning hearing boards, zoning hearings, land use and development controls, such as zoning ordinances, subdivision ordinances, zoning maps, zoning districts, variances, special exceptions, conditional uses, and tax increment financing (TIF).