Research Catalog

Title

Land use and the States / Robert G. Healy, John S. Rosenberg.

Author

Healy, Robert G.

Publication

Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosenberg, John S.
• Resources for the Future.

Description

xvi, 284 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Land use > United States > Planning > States
• Grondpolitiek

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 277-279.

Contents

Introduction- rights in conflict. The origins of concern ; A role for the states ; A maturing revolution -- A variety of discontents. The problems we see ; Problems to come ; Goals for future planning ; Introducing the case studies -- Vermont- eight years of experience. Vermont's "development crisis" ; The state government's response ; Eight years of Act 250 ; Capability and development plan (1973) ; The Vermont land use plan ; Innovations in tax policy -- California- "saving the coast." "Where's the beach?" ; Proposition 20 ; Permit administration- "everything but glaciers" ; The coastal plan ; The legislature responds ; After the Coastal Act -- Florida- harnessing the growth explosion. A new kind of growth ; A fragile and unique environment ; The birth of land policy ; Critical areas ; Developments of regional impact ; A question of expectations ; Toward a comprehensive land use program -- Alternative approaches to state land use control. What does the state control? ; Who decides? -- Issues in implementing state land use controls. Political power ; Economic issues ; Social issues -- Toward new policies for the states. Criteria for better land policies ; Elements of a state land use policy ; The question of a federal land use law ; A chain of decisions.

ISBN

• 080182284X
• 9780801822841
• 0801822858
• 9780801822858

LCCN

79004864

OCLC

• ocm05171891
• 5171891
• SCSB-290097

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library