scholarly journals The Characteristics of Green Belts Land-Use Regulations in Seoul Metropolitan Areas

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Eun-Sook Kang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Economic Traits ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Green Belts

Korean Green Belts, or Restricted Development Zones (RDZs), have been well established system for three decades. This system however has been rapidly deregulated since the announcement of the RDZs Policy Reform. This article examines the characteristics of land use regulation on Green Belts in Seoul Metropolitan Areas (SMA). To achieve this goal, this article investigates criteria: theoretical foundation; objects regulated; relations to market competition; and political-economic traits to distinguish economic regulations from social ones. Second, it reviews the status of RDZs in the SMA and the contents of recent rezoning. Third, it examines the characteristics of land-use regulations on Green Belts according to the above criteria. Finally, it presents three principles to preserve environmental values of Green Belts during the implementation process.

Do Higher Land Costs for New Single-Family Housing Inhibit Economic Activity in U.S. Metropolitan Areas?

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124242110061
Author(s):  
Robert W. Wassmer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Best Interest ◽  
Residential Land ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Panel Data Regression ◽  
Data Regression ◽  
Residential Land Use

The price of a new home is greater if the land to put it on costs more. In many U.S. metropolitan areas, this generates the widely acknowledged equity concern that low- to moderate-income households spend disproportionately on housing. But high residential land prices translating into high single-family home prices may also generate the efficiency concern of discouraging new workers’ entry into such areas or encouraging existing workers’ exit. The result could be a decrease in economic activity. This research offers panel-data regression evidence in support of the existence of this adverse outcome. Perhaps these findings can raise the saliency of the needed state or federal government intervention to curtail the stringency of local residential land-use regulations. NIMBYs see these land-use regulations as in their jurisdiction’s best interest, but as demonstrated here, such restrictions impose additional metro-wide economic concerns.

Do Restrictive Land Use Regulations Make Housing More Expensive Everywhere?

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124242110435
Author(s):  
John Landis ◽  
Vincent J. Reina
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Housing Values ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Single Region ◽  
Home Value ◽  
Regulatory Measures ◽  
Home Values ◽  
Regulatory Measure

This study makes three contributions to the debate over the effect of local land use regulations on housing prices and affordability. First, it is more geographically extensive than previous studies, encompassing 336 of the nation's 384 metropolitan areas. Second, it looks at multiple measures of regulatory stringency, not just one. Most prior studies have focused either on a single regulatory measure or index across multiple metropolitan areas, or multiple regulatory measures in a single region. Third, this paper considers the connection between regulatory stringency and housing values as a function of employment growth and per-worker payroll levels. We find that restrictive land use regulations do indeed have a pervasive effect on local home values and rents, and that these effects are magnified in faster-growing and more prosperous economies. We also find more restrictive land use regulations are not associated with faster rates of recent home value or rent growth, and that their effects on housing construction levels—that is, the degree to which they constrain supply—is uneven among different housing markets.

scholarly journals HOW DO LAND USE REGULATIONS INFLUENCE INDUSTRIAL LAND PRICES? EVIDENCE FROM CHINA

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Fan Tu ◽  
Shuangling Zou ◽  
Ran Ding
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Eastern China ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Land Supply ◽  
Industrial Land ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
The Impact

Due to low industrial land prices and inefficiently used industrial land, China’s central government has reformed land regulations in order to promote more market-oriented industrial land. Considering the differences in land management between developed and developing countries, this study aims to investigate the impact of land use regulations on industrial land prices in China and the effect of market-oriented reforms of industrial land policy. Measures that capture multiple dimensions of land use regulation tools are incorporated into OLS models based on a micro dataset from 1999 to 2016 that covers Jiaxing City in Eastern China. The results show that (1) The land policy implemented in 2006 to promote industrial land marketization has had a very limited effect; (2) The impact of land supply on industrial land prices was decreased for land transferred through listings after 2006, which implies an immature marketization; (3) Zoning instruments has obvious effects on industrial land prices; (4) The results imply that the effect of land use regulations varies with firm ownership and development zones. The findings in this paper clearly show that the industrial land market should be more open and competitive and combined with a rational land supply to promote the market-oriented price mechanism.

scholarly journals Development Controls in Toronto in the Nineteenth Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raphaël Fischler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Spatial Differentiation ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Incremental Development ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
The City

Histories of contemporary development control tend to situate its beginning in the first or second decade of the twentieth century, when modern zoning bylaws were adopted. Yet, as some researchers have pointed out, building and land-use regulations took shape in the nineteenth century and even earlier. This paper focuses on controls set by the City of Toronto between 1834, when it was incorporated, and 1904, when it adopted bylaw no. 4408, which is seen by many as the first step taken by the city toward modern zoning. In technical terms, it appears that a coherent, though minimal, apparatus of land-use regulation was already in place by the 1860s. Over the course of the nineteenth century, building codes and nuisance laws display the growing intervention of public authorities in the development of the industrial city. Municipal control over material production and over human activity diversifies and finds expression in increasingly complex ordinances. In political terms, the bylaws reveal a growing concern with socio-spatial differentiation and with the protection of property values rather than with health and safety. The incremental development of land-use regulation suggests that, even though North American cities borrowed from each other and from their European counterparts, they constructed zoning locally, in accordance to local needs, resources, and constraints (economic, political, and legal) and in a piecemeal fashion, one bylaw, one amendment at a time.

Zoning and affordability: A reply to Rodríguez-Pose and Storper

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091033 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Manville ◽  
Michael Lens ◽  
Paavo Monkkonen
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Housing Affordability ◽  
Housing Construction ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Housing Density ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Housing Outcomes

Would increasing allowable housing densities in expensive cities generate more housing construction and make housing more affordable? In a provocative article, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper survey the evidence and answer no. Restrictions on housing density, they contend, do not substantially influence housing production or price. They further argue that allowing more density in growing metropolitan areas would only improve housing outcomes for the affluent, and most likely harm the poor. We take issue with both of these contentions. While uncertainties remain in the study of housing prices and land use regulation, neither theory nor evidence warrant dispensing with zoning reform, or concluding that it could only be regressive. Viewed in full, the evidence suggests that increasing allowable housing densities is an important part of housing affordability in expensive regions.

Land-Use Regulations and Urban Growth of African Americans

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124242110322
Author(s):  
Xi Yang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Heterogeneous Effects ◽  
Housing Costs

Land-use regulations can restrict urban growth by increasing housing costs. This article investigates the heterogeneous effects of land-use regulations among different racial groups. It uses U.S. Census Bureau data from 202 U.S. metropolitan areas from 1980 to 2010 to investigate how land-use regulations affect changes in the share of African Americans in response to local economic demand. The research finds that highly regulated metropolitan areas experienced a much smaller increase (sometimes a decrease) in the share of African American workers in response to an increase in local labor demand. These results suggest that land-use regulations can restrict the urban growth of African Americans in areas with demand.

Land Use Regulations and Housing Markets in Large Metropolitan Areas

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xifang Xing ◽  
David Hartzell ◽  
David Godschalk
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Land Use Regulations

scholarly journals Land use regulation and property rights regime over land in Serbia

Spatium ◽  
2014 ◽  
pp. 22-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Zivanovic-Miljkovic ◽  
Vesna Popovic
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Effects Of Land Use

Starting from the fact that land use regulations can directly affect assignment and reassignment of property rights over land, the authors examine the link between land use regulation and property rights in Serbia by analyzing relevant literature, as well as legislation and regulations. Current legal framework that regulates property rights over land is inconsistent in many parts, while the effects of land use regulations are very dependent on structural institutional transformations and interdependent on property rights. In this regard, the paper gives a critical overview of framework of property rights regime over land and urban construction and agricultural land regulation in Serbia. After reviewing existing literature, legislation and institutional regulation on the main issues of land use regulations and property rights, the authors discuss in particular redefinition of property rights over land, processes of privatization and restitution of land. The authors indicate that resolving property rights over land is very important both for social issues and for economy and regarding this, land restitution, supported by efficient land administration, is the precondition for successful privatization process.

scholarly journals MODELLING LAND-USE REGULATION CONFLICTS WITH 3D COMPONENTS TO SUPPORT ISSUING A BUILDING PERMIT

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIV-4/W1-2020 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
S. Emamgholian ◽  
J. Pouliot ◽  
D. Shojaei
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Ground Surface ◽  
Land Use Regulation ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Building Permits ◽  
Building Permit

Abstract. Cities are facing important challenges due to population growth and massive development of high-rises and complex structures above and below the ground surface. In that respect, having an efficient land-use regulation framework in force is necessary for cities. In investigating current practices for processing spatial data when issuing building permits, in many cases, the planned building is drawn on 2D plans with cross-sections to represent their 3D dimensions. In complex multilevel developments, this method has significant shortcomings like the requirement of managing numerous plans and sections, and uncertainty in decisions more specifically when checking land-use regulations comprising 3D components (e.g. height limits, overhanging objects, solar rights). In order to support issuing a building permit and moving towards the establishment of 3D smart cities, this paper presents an inventory for land-use regulations with 3D components and functional classification of their possible conflicts. Two functional classifications of possible conflicts in a building permit process from two points of view (i.e. data integration process, and magnitude of land-use regulation conflicts) are proposed. These results are placed in the context of having 3D city models that integrate land-use regulation information.

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