Determining land use policy via the ballot box

Caves, Roger W.

doi:10.1016/0264-8377(90)90056-5

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“…Participatory democracy in the form of initiatives, referendums and recalls are another example of local institutions that have been influencing land use decisions for decades (Caves, 1990). Authors have argued these institutions advance majoritarian interests and thus tend to reflect the preferences of the median voter (McCabe and Feiock, 2005).…”

Section: Political Markets and Local Political Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Despite the significant growth in ballot box initiatives related to planning over the last few decades (Caves, 1990), the number of empirical studies linking the use of ballot initiatives or referendums to select land use policies is still scarce. Using data from California cities, Gerber and Philips (2004) investigate the use of voter requirements to slow growth via new large-scale developments.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Land use management: local institutions and the power to shape

Tavares¹

2023

Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

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This chapter discusses the influence of local institutions in the design, implementation and outcomes of land use policies. It begins by describing the political market framework as an explanation for the adoption of land use policies. The framework accounts for land use choices as the result of supply decisions made by local authorities as policy makers, demand pressures by competing pro-development and pro-conservation interest groups, and the mediating effects of local institutions. Illustrating the usefulness of the framework, the chapter reviews the empirical literature on the role played by executive, legislative, and participatory democracy institutions in shaping land use decisions and extracts lessons to better understand this role.

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Section: Political Markets and Local Political Institutionsmentioning

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Land use management: local institutions and the power to shape

Tavares¹

2023

Handbook on Local and Regional Governance

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“…Caves provided an overview of the many reasons that ballot box planning can hold appeal (8). For instance, direct democracy can be a response to beliefs that representative democracy has failed or that citizen voices are disadvantaged in local government review processes.…”

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Transportation Policy at the Ballot Box

Fang

Thigpen

2017

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Through direct democracy, the voting public can engage in ballot box planning, by which voters themselves, rather than decision makers, set policy and make project decisions. Previous studies found that ballot box planning has a growing influence on land use policy as well as transportation and land use finance. However, the impact of ballot box planning on transportation policy is relatively unexplored. This paper examines 148 local transportation policy–related ballot measures in California from 1995 to 2015. Most transportation policy measures passed, but measures that could be classified as proalternative or anti-car passed at a slightly higher rate than did procar or antialternative measures and showed some agreement between voters and transportation professionals toward multimodalism. Nonetheless, there are numerous examples of voters constraining the options of transportation planners by restricting or even prohibiting contemporary planning strategies. For example, several successful ballot measures took aim at priced parking, red light cameras, and roundabouts. Ballot measures also can create uncertainty through a ballot box volleyball effect, by which policies and project decisions vacillate between two extremes depending on the results of several ballot measures on the same topic. For such reasons, it has been argued that ballot box planning is a deliberative failure in planning and counteracts the best-laid plans of elected officials and planning practitioners.

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Court rulings on local efforts to manage growth by initiative and referendum in California

Zovanyi

1992

Land Use Policy

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Determining land use policy via the ballot box

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Land use management: local institutions and the power to shape

Land use management: local institutions and the power to shape

Transportation Policy at the Ballot Box

Court rulings on local efforts to manage growth by initiative and referendum in California

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