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The new frontier for land policy: Planning and growth management in the 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 1995-96. That publication target date will allow us to assess the impact of the late 1980s' and early 1990s' recession on existing systems, efforts to put new systems in place, and the impact on these systems of private property rights movements. 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, implementing, and sustaining these systems. I would like to express my deepest thanks to the many people who have helped in the preparation of this work, especially the dozens of patient and helpful men and women who made themselves available for sometimes lengthy interviews. Special thanks go to Jeanne Gutierrez, Christine Moore, Ann Reagan, and Daphne Isaacs at the Florida Atlantic University/Florida International University Joint Center for Urban and Environmental Problems and to Jonathan Cheney, project editor, and Dr. Alice Ingerson, director of publications, at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for their assistance in preparing and editing the manuscript. To my partner in this effort, Lincoln Institute researcher Deborah Miness, I offer my thanks for going beyond what was reasonable in our effort to keep things on schedule. |
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