Infrastructure Development, Residential Growth and Impacts on Public Service Expenditure

Abstract

This paper documents the use of geographic information science based planning support systems to evaluate the effects of infrastructure development on residential growth and resulting public service expenditure. The case example presented here investigates the impacts associated with a large water infrastructure development project. The effect of infrastructure on residential development is evaluated by comparing growth trends within areas of different levels of water supply and sewerage services. The effect of changing residential development patterns on public services expenditure is evaluated with a spatially explicit model linking urban form with revenues, expenditures and fiscally efficient areas of service provision for a delivery-based public service, police. Results confirm that the development of water infrastructure leads to residential growth and also indicate this growth in some locations leads to fiscally efficient provision of a public service. A primary recommendation from this research is that, in anticipation of growth, water planning should be comprehensive rather than single issue focused. Planning support systems are indicated to be useful tools supporting policy refinement for land-use and water planning.

Relationships between Insufficient Drinking Water Supply and the Socio-Economic Development of Small Municipalities: Mayors’ Opinions from the Czech Republic

“…Issues concerning the relationships between drinking water supply and the development of municipalities are dealt with throughout the world in case studies of regions of a comparable socio-economic level, but namely in conditions with a more significant deficit of water sources [37][38][39][40][41]. In regard to the deepening problems of droughts as a result of climate change however, such studies can also be inspiring in terms of the conditions in the Czech Republic.…”

“…As a survey carried out in the Czech Republic has shown [36], the most important factor for decisions on a change of place of residence in respondents' minds is the "Drinking water supply situation". In municipalities with a good-quality and high-capacity provision of water supply connections, the possibility arises for new housing construction or the development of entrepreneurial activity [12,25,39]. The studies point to an incongruity between municipal planning on a local scale and the planning of water supply infrastructure on a regional scale [26,39,54,55].…”

“…In municipalities with a good-quality and high-capacity provision of water supply connections, the possibility arises for new housing construction or the development of entrepreneurial activity [12,25,39]. The studies point to an incongruity between municipal planning on a local scale and the planning of water supply infrastructure on a regional scale [26,39,54,55]. It is therefore important for water management planning to know the views of mayors and their perception of obstacles to development.…”

“…From the perspective of regional development theories, we can categorize the internal and external development factors of municipalities in a similar manner [42,64,65]. External factors of quality drinking water supply are linked to the geographical location of the municipality, e.g., factors such as climate, hydrological balance of the territory, hydrogeological regional conditions, the existence of regional water supply systems, and the migration potential of the municipality with regard to the position of the region in the residential system [37,39,41,50,66]. Our research focuses on the socio-economic contexts of the level of drinking water supply; other primarily natural factors have not been subjected to statistical investigation.…”

Technical-urbanistic infrastructure in the Romanian Danube Valley: Urban vs. rural territorial disparities

“…Activities relating to local public utilities are extremely socially important, being substantially involved in the sustainable development of localities and the improvement of living conditions,in general and of residential ones, in particular (Lieske et al, 2015). The assessment of dwelling quality, associated with the quality and quantity of the technical infrastructure, is discussed in several studies.…”