Policy Instrument Choices for Growth Management and Land Use Regulation

Abstract

What factors account for local government land use practices and their choices among specific growth management policy instruments? We apply the political market framework to examine how land use policy choices in Florida are shaped by institutional features of county governments and the demands of organizations and interests in a community. Local policy decisions reflect a balance of the conflicting interests and responses to economic and political pressures. The results demonstrate that county government structure and election rules play critical roles in the adoption of urban service boundaries, incentive zoning, and transfer of development rights programs. We report evidence consistent with the argument that these “second‐generation” growth management policies are motivated by exclusionary goals.

Factors influencing zoning ordinance adoption in rural and exurban townships

“…Allen, Moorman, Peterson, Hess, and Moore, (2013), Feiock et al (2008), Hawkins (2014), Heimlich and Anderson (2001), Howell-Moroney (2008), Neiman and Fernandez (2000), Stedman (2003), Theobald (2005), Tilt et al (2007) U. S.…”

“…Allen et al (2013), Feiock et al (2008), Marcouiller et al (2002), Morgan and Watson (1991), Howell-Moroney (2008) U.S. Census Bureau (1991Bureau ( , 2001 House value ($1000s) Median house value in 1990 " " Conservative voting and voting variability Mean % votes cast for conservative (Republican or US Taxpayers Party) candidates in gubernatorial and presidential elections 1998-2010 and the standard deviation of this variable Townships with consistently conservative voting patterns will be less likely to zone. Kahn (2011) Mich. Dept.…”

Governance modes, policy regimes and operational plans: A multi-level nested model of policy instrument choice and policy design

“…This multi-level analysis helps explain some of the real complexity and difficulties involved in successful policy design (Bobrow 2006;Bobrow and Dryzek 1987), while the fact that the choices and decisions made at each level can usefully be viewed as codetermining each other in a form of embedded or ''nested'' relationship helps explain the severely constrained nature of actual policy instrument choices (Veggeland 2008;Lodge 2008;Feiock, Tavares and Lubell 2008;Kooiman 2008). That is, the range of choices left at the micro-level of concrete targeted policy tool calibrations is restricted by the kinds of meso-level decisions made about policy objectives and policy tools, and both of these, in turn, are restricted by the kind of choices made at the highest or meta-level of general policy aims and implementation preferences.…”

Sustainable Development and Public Administration: Challenges and Innovation in Citizen Engagement

“…Considering their nature, for example, some projects, like case 158 on 'Cycling public transport' (Munster, Germany), may have new and wide-ranging, the ways that local governments address them varies greatly. The need to deal with specific environmental challenges, types of decision-making processes, and availability of resources have all been mentioned in the literature as the factors influencing local governments' sustainability policies [3][4][5][6].…”