Zoning Rules!
Zoning Rules!

Author: William A. Fischel

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9781558442887

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"Zoning has for a century enabled cities to chart their own course. It is a useful and popular institution, enabling homeowners to protect their main investment and provide safe neighborhoods. As home values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters’ excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. The barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Some state, federal, and judicial interventions to control local zoning have done more harm than good. More effective approaches would moderate voters’ demand for local-land use regulation—by, for example, curtailing federal tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing"--Publisher's description.

The Economics of Zoning Laws
The Economics of Zoning Laws

Author: William A. Fischel

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1987-08

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780801835629

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Land use controls can affect the quality of the environment, the provision of public services, the distribution of income and wealth, the development of natural resources, and the growth of the national economy. The Economics of Zoning Laws is the first book to apply the modern economic theory of property rights to all major aspects of zoning. Zoning laws are neither irrational constrints on otherwise efficient markets nor disinterested attempts to correct market failure. Rather, zoning must be viewed as a collective property right, vested in local governments and administered by politicians who rationally repsond to their constituents and to developers as markets for development rights arise. The Economics of Zoning Laws develops the economic theories of property rights and public choice and applies them to three zoning controversies: the siting of a large industrial plant, the exclusionary zoning of the suburbs, and the constitutional protection of propery owners from excessive regulation. Economic and legal theory, William Fischel contends, suggest that payment of damages under the taking clause of the Constitution may provide the most effective remedy for excessive zoning regulations.

Land Use Law in Florida
Land Use Law in Florida

Author: W. Thomas Hawkins

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1000394050

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Land Use Law in Florida presents an in-depth analysis of land use law common to many states across the United States, using Florida cases and statutes as examples. Florida case law is an important course of study for planners, as the state has its own legal framework that governs how people may use land, with regulation that has evolved to include state-directed urban and regional planning. The book addresses issues in a case format, including planning, land development regulation, property rights, real estate development and land use, transportation, and environmental regulation. Each chapter summarizes the rules that a reader should draw from the cases, making it useful as a reference for practicing professionals and as a teaching tool for planning students who do not have experience in reading law. This text is invaluable for attorneys; professional planners; environmental, property rights, and neighborhood activists; and local government employees who need to understand the rules that govern how property owners may use land in Florida and around the country.

The Property Tax, Land Use, and Land Use Regulation
The Property Tax, Land Use, and Land Use Regulation

Author: The late Dick Netzer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781781950852

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Dick Netzer, a leading public finance economist specializing in state and local issues and urban government, brings together in this comprehensive volume essays by top scholars connecting the property tax with land use.

Trickle-Up Economics
Trickle-Up Economics

Author: William Spaulding

Publisher:

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9781709186769

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Is utopia possible? Maybe not a perfect society, but is it possible to maximize the happiness of society? This book proposes that it is, indeed, possible to, at least, greatly improve the happiness of society by structuring the tax code according to 2 very simple economic principles that anyone can understand. It will greatly reduce inequality and give most people a much better start in life. Economic output can also be increased by changing the tax code to promote work.This book explains the history of wealth creation, and why the wealthy are rich. It also debunks the many arguments used to promote tax breaks for the wealthy.If this tax policy could be enacted, it would end economic slavery, and show how the world could potentially live in peace! This book also suggests a much better way to vote so that better policies can be implemented, thus reducing the influence of money and corruption in politics.

Land Use and Society
Land Use and Society

Author: Rutherford H. Platt

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9781559636858

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Land Use and Society is a unique and compelling exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and their joint influence on the evolution of land use and urban form in the United States. Originally published in 1996, this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition retains the strengths of the earlier version while introducing a host of new topics and insights on the twenty-first century metropolis. This new edition of Land Use and Society devotes greater attention to urban land use and related social issues with two new chapters tracing American city and metropolitan change over the twentieth century. More emphasis is given to social justice and the environmental movement and their respective roles in shaping land use and policy in recent decades. This edition of Land Use and Society by Rutherford H. Platt is updated to reflect the 2000 Census, the most recent Supreme Court decisions, and various topics of current interest such as affordable housing, protecting urban water supplies, urban biodiversity, and "ecological cities." It also includes an updated conclusion that summarizes some positive and negative outcomes of urban land policies to date.

Land Use Law and Disability
Land Use Law and Disability

Author: Robin Paul Malloy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0521193931

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This book argues that communities need better planning to be safely navigated by people with mobility impairment and to facilitate intergenerational aging in place.