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McConnell, Virginia D.; Walls, Margaret; Kopits, Elizabeth. |
Many communities on the urban fringe are implementing a range of policies to preserve farmland and open space, cluster residential development, and guide development to areas with existing infrastructure. These efforts are an attempt to control overall growth and the concomitant loss in open space and also to counter a trend toward the so-called large lot development that often takes place in these areas. Planners have argued that policies to manage density are the most important local policy focus for urban areas in the coming years. It is possible that large lot development and sprawl are themselves the result of government policy. Most local governments use zoning to establish minimum acreage requirements for each residential dwelling unit; in ex-urban... |
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Housing density; Zoning; Transferable development rights; Public Economics; R14; R15; R52. |
Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10490 |