Land use Controls: The Case of Zoning in the Vancouver Area

Mark, Jonathan H.; Goldberg, Michael A.

doi:10.1111/1540-6229.00252

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“…Land use planning controls, which attenuate the development right of individual land owners, protect land users in the neighborhood against detrimental externalities caused by individual developments. State regulatory intervention in the private land market is well recognized as playing a constructive role in the shaping of a functional land market (Stull, 1975;Mark and Goldberg, 1981). By assigning rights and liabilities, the state plays a supportive role contributing to efficiency on the one hand.…”

Section: Property Rights and Place-making: Theoretical Discussionmentioning

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Place Remaking under Property Rights Regimes: A Case Study of Niucheshui, Singapore

Zhu

Sim

2007

Environ Plan A

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From the perspective of institutional analysis, this paper evaluates the place-remaking process of Niucheshui in Singapore. It is found that the redevelopment of Niucheshui since the 1960s has been substantively shaped by the property rights regime over land and buildings. As property rights are defined by the state in the forms of statutory land-use planning, compulsory land acquisition, rent control, land leasing, and conservation of historical buildings, the free market for land redevelopment is reined in heavily by the state. The built form of Niucheshui before 1960 was by and large the product of many private individuals' and communities' initiatives. Those players have faded from the scene since the 1960s, and the redevelopment of Niucheshui is the result of interactions between the state and market forces, though public participation is practised in the land-use planning process. In view of the urban land market behaving and performing within a framework defined by institutions, and property rights being one of the most important institutions, we argue that, not warranted by rhetoric public participation, pluralism and diversity in the built environment are protected by a diverse structure of land property rights which should be incorporated into the place-remaking process.

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Section: Property Rights and Place-making: Theoretical Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Place Remaking under Property Rights Regimes: A Case Study of Niucheshui, Singapore

Zhu

Sim

2007

Environ Plan A

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“…No evidence currently exists on this issue and the results of some studies suggest that market forces may be too immutable for CP to make much of a difference. 6 In particular, the findings of Wallace (1988), McMillan andMcDonald (1991, 1993), and Mark andGoldberg (1981, 1986) suggest that the patterns of land use and values that occur after a system of land use regulation and planning is imposed closely matches what would have been produced by a free market. This will happen, it is argued, because there is considerable political pressure from landowners to allow the ''highest and best use'' of land at each location in order to maximize aggregate land value.…”

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Does Comprehensive Land-Use Planning Improve Cities?

Ihlanfeldt¹

2008

Land Economics

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Comprehensive land-use planning is growing in popularity among U.S. state and local policymakers. This popularity is based on the belief that planning enhances community welfare; however, there is little empirical evidence in support of this belief based upon U.S. data. This paper uses unique data from the state of Florida to estimate the effect on house value of a local community's commitment to comprehensive planning. If planning enhances community welfare, this should be reflected in higher housing values. The results suggest that a balanced budget expansion in per capita comprehensive planning expenditures enhances community welfare. (JEL H72, R52)

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“…Therefore, by assigning rights and liabilities, the state may play a role that is conducive to efficiency (Lai, 1997). Rent dissipation may occur due to the attenuation of property rights by state intervention (Stull, 1975;Mark and Goldberg, 1981). Lai (1997: 196), however, argues that the 'meaningful question is whether the cost of such attenuation is greater or smaller than the alternative of leaving the matter entirely to the unregulated market'.…”

Section: Property Rights and Developmentmentioning

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Urban Development under Ambiguous Property Rights: A Case of China’s Transition Economy

Zhu

2002

Int J Urban Regional Res

144

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Property rights play a key role in maintaining sustainable growth and in achieving efficient development. China's economic reforms have stimulated urban physical development through the commodification and marketization of land-use rights and building construction. Property rights over urban land have been decentralized, but the gradualist reform of state assets has not assigned and delineated property rights clearly between the principal and agents. Within a short space of time, Shanghai, a city in a transition economy, is facing a great property glut for the first time in its history. It is the two-tier incentive structure that has created the dynamics of Shanghai's urban physical development since 1980. The marketization of buildings makes property development a viable business. Capitalization on valued properties in the open domain motivates key actors in the development process to initiate redevelopment projects. Rapidly rising price benchmarks established by the booming property market escalate the urge to transform rents in the unsecured public domain to physical assets that are protected by the socialist use right. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2002.

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Land use Controls: The Case of Zoning in the Vancouver Area

Cited by 22 publications

References 9 publications

Place Remaking under Property Rights Regimes: A Case Study of Niucheshui, Singapore

Place Remaking under Property Rights Regimes: A Case Study of Niucheshui, Singapore

Does Comprehensive Land-Use Planning Improve Cities?

Urban Development under Ambiguous Property Rights: A Case of China’s Transition Economy

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