Regardless of the community's rationale for limiting growth, the result may be the exclusion of poor households from the community. Studies of growth control support the assertion that growth control [...]
The British Town and Country planning system was originally designed to guide rather than restrict development. It has grown into a system which restricts development across the board. This has [...]
In short, it is time to discard the tired baggage of conventional zoning and start afresh with a new approach to land-use policy. What is needed are land-use policies that [...]
This paper analyzes a simple model of an urban area with growth and uncertainty...Even though investors are risk neutral, uncertainty affects both land rents and land prices in equilibrium because [...]
The increasing use of impact fees represents a new trend in local fiscal policy which can have important effects on real estate markets. The ramifications for economic efficiency as well [...]
The problems of public housing and related subsidy programs are less the result of poor maintenance and design than a fundamental misunderstanding of the role which housing plays in social [...]
Under urban planning in the United States, virtually every major development is subjected to the vagaries of the rezoning process and the uncertainties associated with legislative review by planning boards [...]
Urban sprawl has sparked a national debate over land-use policy. At least 19 states have established either state growth-management laws or task forces to protect farmland and open space. Dozens [...]
Local and state government officials and environmental activists use the term to create images of disorder, chaos, and irrational decision making about land use by Michigan’s private landowners. These officials [...]
More than 100 cities and counties have adopted some form of a growth boundary—a limit on land development beyond a politically designated area—to curb sprawl, protect open space, or encourage [...]