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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"land use regulations"”.
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How Land Use Regulations Inform Sustainable Development: A Look at Commercial Development in Bakersfield, California
… research analyzes the relationship between local land use regulations and commercial development in the City of Bakersfield, California, specifically focusing on how the regulations are used to inform commercial development to be sustainable or not. This research contributes to similar research …
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Regulatory Utilization: A Novel Measure of Public Land Use Controls Comparable Across Space and Time and Calculable from Open-Source Data
… activist circles is the restrictive effect of land use regulation on housing supply. Although economic theory generally accords with this explanation, attempts to quantify the effects of land use regulations on housing supply have faced significant conceptual and practical challenges. …
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Violations of land use and building regulations: evidence from a case study in Bangalore, India
Land use and building controls inherited from colonial tradition guide the implementation of urban development plans in developing countries. Current planning research argues that regulatory structures like land use, zoning, and building regulations are inappropriate given existing socio-economic, …
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Knowing no boundaries : stemming the tide of urban sprawl in several southern Connecticut towns and the lessons for other strong home rule areas
Land use regulations and development patterns of several southern Connecticut towns and cities were studied in order to determine how the individual municipal land use controls in each town have contributed to urban sprawl in Southern Connecticut. Additionally, the historical foundations for the …
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Land value taxation as a mechanism to relieve housing supply constraints in Austin, Texas
… growth. Codified separation of distinct land uses required new methods of real estate taxation and enabled new forms of value creation. Time and cost savings in infrastructure construction facilitated exponential growth in the speed at which a city's form could change. Amidst the …
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Land use politics southern style : the case of cash proffers in Virginia
… at the state level and actual implementation of land use regulations at the local level is the focus of this dissertation. This focus is explored through the genesis and efficacy of cash proffers, a land use regulatory tool in Virginia. Using a mixed methods approach, I answer research questions …
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Land use, spatial structure, and regional economic performance: assessing the economic effects of land use planning and regulation
… and structural changes can directly affect land use patterns within the regions, little is known about the inverse: how a change or intervention in land use influences regional economic performance. Does land use planning or regulation promote a region's economic well-being? Alternatively, …
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Optimal building heights around Bogotá's first subway line
… has not been taken into account when defining land use regulations, that is why incorporating market factors would definitely contribute to a more appropriate land use policy. The purpose of the present research is to develop a model to estimate optimal building heights that can help in …
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Resource Protection: a Model For National Parks
As development of lands around national parks increases it will be important for land use controls to be in place to protect park resources. This study resulted in the development of a model that can be used to refine a protection plan for park resources using a geographic information system. This …
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Do new student rentals affect other housing submarkets? Evidence from Champaign-Urbana
… student rental housing and other submarkets. I use Champaign-Urbana, Illinois as my case study area — home to the flagship University of Illinois campus. I examine university enrollment data from 1980 to 2018 to track demographic changes in the student population. Then I use decennial census and …
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Application of selected new urbanist principles to residential infill developments in mature suburbs of Greater Boston
… United States. The crisis of sprawl has been caused in large part by poorly crafted land use regulations, many of which mandate sprawl. While an abundance of contemporary land use and planning literature focuses on the concepts of New Urbanism, little attention has been given to their regulatory …
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Tacking against postmodernism : Gloucester's working port holds it course
Gloucester, Massachusetts has long been regarded as the quintessential working port in the Northeast and the home of commercial fishing in America for several hundred years. Today, Gloucester's working port is threatened by dwindling fish stocks, strict land-use regulations and development …
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Evaluating Determinants of Participation in Voluntary Riparian Buffer Programs: A Case Study of Maryland's Buffer Incentive Program
… source water pollution from agricultural land. The current emphasis of riparian buffer discussions focuses on voluntary rather than regulatory initiatives, both nationally and in the Chesapeake Bay region. This is not a project about the behavior of buffers; rather, it is about the …
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Adapting to Rising Sea Levels
… study explores the ability of governments to use market tools, land use regulations, and property acquisition to promote adaptation to rising sea levels. Because of market dynamics and political factors including flaws in public risk perception, I conclude that governments who wish to avoid …
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When incentives aren't enough : challenges in Chapter 40R Massachusetts Smart Growth Zoning Overlay District Act implementation
… cities and towns controlling their own land use regulations. This fragmentation has led to a system where cities and towns regulate land use in an uncoordinated manner, leaving the entire region with a shortage of housing and raising housing costs. In 2004, the Commonwealth of …
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Three Essays in Urban and Public Economics
… In Chapters 2 and 3, urban growth controls (land use regulations adopted to restrict population growth and urban sprawl) are studied. The previous literature has shown that controls increase housing prices and divert population growth to uncontrolled cities. In Chapter 2, the possibility of …
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Resident Perception of Shoreline Recession in Nags Head, North Carolina
… This concern has developed largely because of the tremendous expense associated with trying to save coastal structures from the damage, and even total destruction, that can result from shoreline erosion. While land use regulations can be used to help avoid these expenses, their …
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Conceptualising a 'living urban edge' for the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), Cape Town
The PHA is a large tract of productive farmlands embedded in the Cape Flats district of the City of Cape Town. The farmlands are essential for the City's food and water security, local livelihoods, biodiversity, heritage and access to green space for poor communities. Despite a long-standing policy …
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Conceptualising a 'living urban edge' for the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA), Cape Town
The PHA is a large tract of productive farmlands embedded in the Cape Flats district of the City of Cape Town. The farmlands are essential for the City's food and water security, local livelihoods, biodiversity, heritage and access to green space for poor communities. Despite a long-standing policy …
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GRIZZLY BEAR REINTRODUCTION: UNDERSTANDING STAKEHOLDER INTERESTS IN THE SELWAY-BITTERROOT ECOSYSTEM SOUTH OF THE SALMON RIVER
… legality of the introductions, increased public land use regulations, and issues regarding other wildlife. Those stakeholders open to receiving information regarding grizzly bears in the future are interested in learning more about the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Reintroduction Plan, costs associated …
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