Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook

Author: Stuart Meck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 1528

ISBN-13: 1351178318

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States and their local governments have practical tools to help combat urban sprawl, protect farmland, promote affordable housing, and encourage redevelopment. They appear in the American Planning Association's Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook: Model Statutes for Planning and the Management of Change. The Guidebook and its accompanying User Manual are the culmination of APA's seven-year Growing Smart project, an effort to draft the next generation of model planning and zoning legislation for the United States. The Guidebook is also pertinent to those who are affected by planning decisions and who have an interest in how the statutes are revised, including: Local planners Builders Developers Real estate and design professionals Smart growth and affordable housing advocates Environmentalists Highway and transit specialists Citizens.

Not in My Back Yard
Not in My Back Yard

Author:

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1993-12

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780788100666

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The final report of the blue-ribbon commission appointed by Pres. Bush to study government regulations that drive up housing costs for American families. Examined the effects of rules, regulations, and red tape at all levels of government on the costs of housing in America. Graphs.

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.

A Compendium of Reports and Studies Relating to the Commerce and Industries of Boston
A Compendium of Reports and Studies Relating to the Commerce and Industries of Boston

Author: Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13:

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...A chronological listing and description of reports relating to Boston arranged under the following headings: Commerce and Industry, Publications of the Federal Government, the Commonwealth, the City of Boston, the Chamber of Commerce, Other Organizations and Individuals, Related Subjects, General City Planning, Metropolitan Unity, Metropolitan Highways, Metropolitan Transportation, Industrial Education, Market Problems, Housing and Zoning; appendices include 1) A Chronological Summary of the Principal Investigations [1837-1924], 2) A Selected List of Important Publications, 3) A List of Manuals of Description and Information, 4) A Reference List of Important Maps and Plans, 5) A List of Notable Improvements Affecting Commerce and Industry, 6) A Statement on Differential Rates, 7) A List of Publications not Summarized; a subject index is included; the reports summarized date from 1844 through 1924; three aerial views are the Atlantic Avenue waterfront, the East Boston waterfront and the Army Base, South Boston; one map is entitled Historical Boston and shows the outline of Boston in 1630 and 1900 with acreage given for each; the other map is entitled Present-Day Boston; a copy of this publication was in the BRA collection...