Land use decision-making in the wake of state property rights legislation: Examining the institutional response to Florida’s Harris Act

Linkous, Evangeline R.; Skuzinski, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.05.002

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“…At the time of writing, Florida local governments are actively working to adopt this element to comply with the law and the impacts cannot yet be assessed. This bill had been proposed for many years, so the Legislature’s adoption decision in 2021 may signal a deepening of Florida’s already strong private property rights framework (Linkous and Skuzinski 2018)—potentially eroding local government ability to act in the public interest. However, in practice, the law led to concerns from the development community as well as local governments that critical projects could be delayed as governments updated their plans in compliance with the law.…”

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The Dismantling of Growth Management in Florida?: The Consistency Mandate, Policy Change, and Institutional Realignment

Linkous

2022

Journal of Planning History

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In 1985, Florida established a groundbreaking approach to growth management and intergovernmental relations, which the state’s 2011 Community Planning Act is widely described as ending. This paper presents a history and institutional analysis of policy changes for the State’s core consistency doctrine. It concludes that the CPA did not end growth management since Florida retains the mandate for local planning consistent with state growth management criteria and subject to state review. However, it does formalize diminished state authority over local planning. Florida’s current institutional arrangement for planning involves an assertive state rule-making stance, but shifts planning responsibility to local governments.

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The Dismantling of Growth Management in Florida?: The Consistency Mandate, Policy Change, and Institutional Realignment

Linkous

2022

Journal of Planning History

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“…We obtained land-use change information from key local stakeholders with decision games (DGs). DGs are widely adopted in behavioral research [44][45][46][47], because multiple behavioral responses of the same individual to hypothetical scenarios can be observed in one experimental setup [48]. In the context of land use decisions, which are usually made once a year, this experimental approach can thus potentially help to anticipate results from long-term observational studies.…”

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What Drives Intensification of Land Use at Agricultural Frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from a Decision Game

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Börner

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Land-use change results from the decisions of diverse actors in response to economic and political contexts. Identification of underlying decision-making processes is key to understanding land-use patterns, anticipating trends, and designing effective environmental governance mechanisms. Here, we use a scenario-based decision game to examine hypothetical land-use decisions among four groups of rural producers in the municipalities of Sinop, Guarantã do Norte and Novo Progresso in the Brazilian Amazon. We simulate changes in agricultural prices, production cost, and frequency of environmental monitoring (in situ inspections) to understand how land-use decisions are made and change with shifts in economic and governance incentives. Hypothetical land-use decisions vary across scenarios, but not across study sites; environmental law enforcement influence land decisions, but not to the extent of dominating market factors and not for all types of producers. Decision games cannot substitute approaches to explain behavioral responses from observational data. However, they can provide immediate feedback on behavioral hypotheses before comprehensive observational data becomes available and support the development of models for land-use policy planning at local and regional scales.

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Urban Approaches to Sustainability: Zoning

Skuzinski

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability

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Land use decision-making in the wake of state property rights legislation: Examining the institutional response to Florida’s Harris Act

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

The Dismantling of Growth Management in Florida?: The Consistency Mandate, Policy Change, and Institutional Realignment

The Dismantling of Growth Management in Florida?: The Consistency Mandate, Policy Change, and Institutional Realignment

What Drives Intensification of Land Use at Agricultural Frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from a Decision Game

Urban Approaches to Sustainability: Zoning

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