scholarly journals A New Metric in Town: A Survey of Local Planners on California’s Switch from LOS to VMT

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamey M. B. Volker ◽  
Joe Kaylor ◽  
Amy Lee
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Level Of Service ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Vehicle Miles Traveled ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Impact Fees ◽  
Development Impact Fees

This paper presents results from a 2018 survey of local planners (n = 77) about an impending transition in California’s environmental review law, which will require planners to evaluate land development projects for their effects on vehicle miles traveled (VMT) rather than automobile level-of-service (LOS). We find that most planners view VMT as an appropriate metric to measure environmental impacts from transportation, both generally and in their own jurisdictions. Outside of environmental review, some jurisdictions will likely continue to use LOS to assess development impact fees. But LOS may not be as ingrained in local planning practice as generally assumed.

Development Impact Fees: A Vehicle or Restraint for Land Development?

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1047-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sang-Seok Bae ◽  
Sung-Wook Kwon ◽  
Christopher Coutts ◽  
Sang-Chul Park ◽  
Richard Clark Feiock
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Impact Fees ◽  
Development Impact Fees ◽  
The U.S

Although development impact fees have been used by local governments for decades, it is still not well understood how this tool serves its fundamental policy goal of growth management. Previous studies have shown that impact fees can serve as either a vehicle or restraint for land development. By using panel data from Florida counties in the U.S., this study shows that the use of impact fees precipitates local development by increasing the value of developable parcels. Impact fees allow developers to pursue more development activities as they bear the imposed fees.

scholarly journals ‘We need to put what we do in my dad’s language, in pounds, shillings and pence’: Commercialisation and the reshaping of public-sector planning in England

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802198995
Author(s):  
Jason Slade ◽  
Malcolm Tait ◽  
Andy Inch
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Professional Identities ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Planning Practice ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Disciplinary Matrix ◽  
Planning Authority

This article furthers understanding of how commercial imperatives are reshaping dominant conceptions of planning practice in England, and by extension the production of the built environment more widely. We make an original contribution by tracing the emergence of the logic of commercialisation in England, demonstrating how the impacts of austerity and ‘market-led viability planning’ have entrenched the ‘delivery state’, a powerful disciplinary matrix representing late-neoliberal governance. Through in-depth, ethnographic study of a local planning authority, we argue that commercialisation within the delivery state creates a distinct ‘economy of attention’, reshaping planners’ agency and professional identities, and the substance and scope of their work. The conclusion draws out wider implications of commercialisation for planning in and beyond the delivery state.

Stakeholder Dynamics in Land Development Projects

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (S2) ◽  
pp. S53-S70
Author(s):  
Karen Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Land Development ◽  
Development Projects

Impact fees: a review of alternatives and their implications for planning practice in Britain

1996 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Goodchild ◽  
Christine Booth ◽  
John Henneberry
Keyword(s):  
Planning Practice ◽  
Impact Fees

Applications for Planning Permission 1: Pre-Submission Requirements

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashley Bowes
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Standard Form ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Local Planning ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Planning Authority

Until fairly recently there was no standard form prescribed for the making of an application for planning permission. Each local planning authority could provide its own form for doing so. This led to a variation in the amount of information required by each authority, and was a concern for large-scale developers, such as volume house builders, where development projects could involve applications being made to many different local planning authorities.

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