Smart Growth Planning for Climate Protection

Barbour, Elisa; Deakin, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/01944363.2011.645272

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“…The jurisdiction is important because it is ultimately jurisdictions that control land-use decisions. In California, jurisdictions are also responsible for meeting housing targets by affordability category under the state's Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) (Barbour & Deakin, 2012;Lewis, 2003). The metric for census places is calculated using Equation 1, Low-wage jobs-housing fit…”

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“…In this way, it is intuitive for affordable housing advocates, planners, and elected officials, thus making it more amenable to incorporation into participatory planning and policy advocacy efforts. California is a particularly appropriate test location for this work because of the 2008 passage of Senate Bill (SB) 375, also known as the Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (Barbour & Deakin, 2012). The law requires California's regions to reduce vehicle travel by pursuing integrated transportation, land use, and housing planning.…”

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Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Benner

Karner

2016

Urban Geography

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Finding the right jobs-housing balance has long been an important concern for urban planners. More recently, attention has turned to jobs-housing fit -the extent to which housing price is well matched to local job quality. Prior analyses have been constrained by a lack of local data on job quality, making it difficult to identify the geography and scale of the problem. We introduce a new methodology for calculating the low-wage jobs-housing fit at both a jurisdiction and neighborhood scale that was designed in collaboration with affordable housing advocates and has been directly applied in urban planning and affordable housing policy efforts. Low-wage fit is particularly important because of ongoing difficulties with affordable housing provision and the disproportionate benefits of reducing transportation costs for low-income earners. We use the calculated metric at both a city and neighborhood scale to identify what can be learned from a low-wage jobshousing fit metric that is not evident in traditional measures of jobs-housing balance. In contrast to jobs-housing balance, the low-wage fit analysis clearly highlights those jurisdictions and neighborhoods where there is a substantial shortage of affordable housing in relation to the number of low-wage jobs. Because of the geographic coverage of the data sources used, the results can be widely applied across the United States by affordable housing advocates, land-use planners, and policy makers. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Benner

Karner

2016

Urban Geography

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“…Huang et al [51] mention both globalisation and -global environmental change‖ as key drivers of the sprawling development that has threatened agricultural land and ecological functions in the northern region of Taiwan. Finally, Garcia and Riera [29], Barbour and Deakin [42], Bart [22], Tiwari et al [62], and La Greca et al [24] are all examples of articles that situate themselves firmly within the climate change conversation.…”

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The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl: Emergent Themes from the Past Decade of Planning Research

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Abstract:This article reviews studies published in English language planning journals since 2001 that focus on the environmental impacts of sprawl. We organise our analysis of the reviewed literature around: (1) the conceptualisation or measurement of sprawl; (2) a comparison of research methods employed and findings with respect to four categories of environmental impacts-air, energy, land, and water; and (3) an exploration of emergent and cross-cutting themes. We hypothesise that the trend towards breaking down silos observable in other areas of planning scholarship is also reflected in the recent sprawl literature and structure our review to test this proposition. International in scope, our work demonstrates how focusing on outcomes can facilitate balanced comparisons across geographic contexts with varying rates of urbanisation and affluence. We find that the sprawl research published in planning journals over the past decade frequently engages with broader themes of resilience and justice, increasingly considers multiple environmental outcomes, and suggests a convergence in the way sprawl is studied that transcends national boundaries as well as the developing-developed country dichotomy.

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“…California's Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (SB 375) and the Oregon Sustainable Transportation Initiative (SB 1059) are unique in the United States. No other states have set specific GHG emissions-reduction targets for regional agencies to reduce GHGs through coordinated planning for land use and transportation (Barbour and Deakin 2012;Eaken, Horner, and Ohland 2012). The goal of both laws is to cut emissions by changing development patterns in a way that encourages more compact development that allows people to walk, bike or take transit instead of driving -and to make shorter trips when they do drive.…”

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Building Planner Commitment: Are California’s SB 375 and Oregon’s SB 1059 Models for Climate-Change Mitigation?

Bartholomew¹,

Proffitt²

2017

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Sponsoring Agency Code Supplementary Notes AbstractCalifornia's Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (SB 375) and the Oregon Sustainable Transportation Initiative (SB 1059) have made them the first states in the nation to try and reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions using the transportation-planning process. Evaluating how these pioneering laws have changed local planning processes -as well as plans themselves -in each state provides insight into the laws' effectiveness at changing development patterns in a way that reduces GHG emissions, without waiting decades to see the effects in the built environment. Both states' laws require metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and the municipalities that comprise them to plan development scenarios that reduce per capita GHG emissions from private automobiles. The emissions-reductions targets for each metro are determined through negotiation with state agencies and are updated periodically. Planning researchers (Burby et al., 1997) categorize laws like these as state planning mandates because they require local-level governments to incorporate state-specified goals into their plans. A host of empirical studies (Berke & French, 1994;Bunnell & Jepson, 2011;Burby & May, 1998;Burby, 2005;Burby et al., 1993;Hoch, 2007;May, 1993) suggest that the structure of state planning mandates, particularly the way their "carrots" and "sticks" encourage full adoption of the mandate's goals and objectives or allow for just minimal compliance, are key to their success in changing development patterns. This is because greater planner commitment tends to result in higher-quality local plans and better plan implementation (Alterman & Hill, 1978;Berke & French, 1994;Berke & Godschalk, 2009;Berke, 1996; Brody & Highfield, 2005;Brody, 2003; Laurian et al., 2004; Talen, 1996), effectively acting as a multiplier that increases the plan's influence on the built environment and other development outcomes. Therefore, we believe that evaluating the degree to which state planning mandates in California and Oregon have changed local planning documents and practices is the best available indicator of how the mandates will influence development patterns in the future. Furthermore, tracing how the mandates affect decisions made by local planners informs the suitability of California and Oregon's planning mandates to serve as a model for policy in other states, or at the national or international scale. This study fits the NITC themes of taking long-term action on transportation emissions and climate change and integrating multimodal transportation and land use. We employ content analysis to evaluate SB 375 and SB 1059's influence on regional transportation plans (RTPs) produced by MPOs. Conducting content analyses of RTPs approved before and after the planning mandates took effect will produce scores that allow us to compare how much the plans have changed due to the laws. It will also allow us to group MPOs based on their performance and identify characteristics of the metro areas they...

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Smart Growth Planning for Climate Protection

Cited by 94 publications

References 16 publications

Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

Low-wage jobs-housing fit: identifying locations of affordable housing shortages

The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl: Emergent Themes from the Past Decade of Planning Research

Building Planner Commitment: Are California’s SB 375 and Oregon’s SB 1059 Models for Climate-Change Mitigation?

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