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Planning and growth management in the United States
| Author: |
DeGrove, John M.; with Miness, Deborah A. |
| Date: |
1992 |
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Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
| Abstract: |
This monograph is an assessment, as of 1992, of state/regional growth management systems in seven selected states and two regions. It represents an interim status report on the state/regional growth management movement that began in the 1970s and has continued into the 1990s. These systems will be more fully analyzed and compared, with a number of states and regions added, in a book to be published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in 1994-95. That publication target date will allow us to assess the impact of the late 1980s' and early 1990s' recession on existing systems and also on efforts to put new ones in place. In the brief, twenty-year history of the development of growth management systems, involving a new allocation of authority and responsibilities at the state, regional, and local levels, there have been major impacts on the character and quality of comprehensive planning and plan implementation. Concepts such as consistency, concurrency, compact urban growth patterns, and new approaches to protecting natural systems are present to a greater or lesser extent in all the systems described here. Of special interest is the degree to which affordable housing and economic development interests have been integrated into these new systems. Finally, we look at least in a preliminary way at how the issues of home rule and private property rights play out in adopting and implementing these systems. |
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