The Public Policy Aspects of Biological Monitoring: Budget and Land-Use Planning Implications at the County Level

2004 ◽  
Vol 94 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 193-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Ortigoza Bateman ◽  
Eric S. Walbeck
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Biological Monitoring ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
County Level ◽  
The Public

The Importance of Planning and Politics

Suburb ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Royce Hanson
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Half Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Silver Spring ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Traditional Land Use

This book concludes with a discussion of Montgomery County's contribution to understanding planning politics. Montgomery's experience highlights the complementary roles and reasoning processes of planners and politicians as they sought to act in the public interest. One of the most valuable lessons planners and political leaders can take from Montgomery's cases is the importance of persistence in land use policy. This is evident in the General Plan, the Agricultural Reserve, and Silver Spring. Furthermore, Montgomery shows that planning matters even if planning politics is hard. This conclusion argues that planning for the next half-century will require a fusion of traditional land use planning with a broader capacity for rethinking Montgomery's role in the metropolitan, state, national, and world political economies. It ends by speculating on the county's future.

Defining the ground for land-use-based direct public-value capture in Austria

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (0) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Arthur Schindelegger ◽  
Laura Sidonie Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Land Value ◽  
Legal Analysis ◽  
Recent Discussion ◽  
Value Capture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Planning Decisions ◽  
Key Aspects

The discussion whether and how to capture the increment of land value has been present in academia and politics for decades. Only few countries have established comprehensive systems to calculate land values and introduce a regulatory basis to directly or indirectly capture increments linked to land-use planning decisions for the public good. This article elaborates the potentials of and barriers to implementing a land-use-based direct value-capture mechanism within Austria’s fragmented planning regime. The considerations are built upon an analysis of the existing framework and instruments linked to land value and planning to identify the context of constraints for an additional or replacing instrument. Based on a legal analysis and qualitative expert interviews, key aspects for linking value capture to land-use planning decisions are identified and conclusions drawn based on a recent discussion in Austria.

Beyond the Public Meeting

2011 ◽  
pp. 43-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy L. Hawthorne ◽  
Michael Dougherty ◽  
Gregory Elmes ◽  
Christopher Fletcher ◽  
Brent McCusker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Meeting ◽  
Spatial Decision Making ◽  
Community Input

This chapter describes how community-based qualitative information about local land use is being incorporated into a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) for the Cheat Lake Planning District of Monongalia County, West Virginia. The research demonstrates how PGIS can be an effective methodology for promoting community input into land use planning and for augmenting spatial decision-making for “smart growth.” The Cheat Lake PGIS is field-based and provides residents with an opportunity to discuss and map their priority land use issues and to identify land use hotspots in a way that is not typically possible in a general public meeting. This project also provides a useful example of the integration of academic PGIS research with an emerging county planning infrastructure and related set of regulations. This is achieved through multimedia representation of local knowledge with formal spatial information; for example, traditional GIS raster and vector data, community narratives, mental maps, GPS transect walks, geo-referenced photos, and sound. The Cheat Lake PGIS pilot project also offers important lessons for participatory land use planning.

scholarly journals Estimating Resident’s Preference of the Land Use Program surrounding the Forest Park, Taiwan

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-Hung Lee ◽  
Chiung-Hsin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Latent Class Model ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Heterogeneous Preferences ◽  
Wetland Area ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
The Public

This paper aims to build up a preference function to evaluate the public benefits of the type of agricultural farming, biodiversity, water provisions, land use type, ecotourism modes, and a monetary attribute (environmental trust fund and willingness to contribute) associated with an ecosystem service and land use program in a forest park. This study used the choice experiments to build a random utility model, analyze the average preference for the above land use attributes based on the conditional logit and used a latent class model to test the resident’s heterogeneous preferences for land use planning in the forest park. We also estimated the welfare derived from various land use programs. The empirical result had shown that: (1) increasing organic farming area, maintaining the status quo of species biodiversity, increasing the surface water provision, increasing the area of custom flora, increasing the wetland area, and setting up an integrated framework for ecotourism increase the public’s preference for the land use program; (2) we found that farmer and non-farmer haven’t the same land use preferences; (3) the ecotourism development program incorporating biodiversity, organic farming, ethnobotany, and wetland area with integrated ecotourism are more preferred than other land use program scenarios.

scholarly journals PLANNING AND ARUN's (NOT SO STRAIGHT AND NARROW) ROADS

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jeannie Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Land Use Management ◽  
Property Development ◽  
High Court ◽  
The Public ◽  
Formed Part

Arun Property Development (Pty) Ltd wished to subdivide portions of the farm Langeberg 311, Durbanville. The 1988 structure plan for the area had indicated that certain roads would traverse the property. These and other roads all formed part of a new subdivision known as Sonstraal Heights. As is customary, the ownership of the roads in the subdivision vested in the municipality in terms of section 28 of the Land Use Planning Ordinance 15 of 1985 (C) (LUPO) on the date of approval of the subdivision. Central to this provision is that no compensation is payable to the developer if the provision of the public roads is based on the normal need therefor arising from the subdivision. Since the developer was of the opinion that the roads it had provided exceeded the normal need, the issue that had to be resolved was whether compensation must be paid for roads beyond what would normally be required for a subdivision. The main issue that the courts, from the Western Cape High Court to the Constitutional Court in Arun Property Development (Pty) Ltd v City of Cape Town 2015 2 SA 584 (CC), had to deal with was whether the vesting of roads beyond the normal need therefor arising from the subdivision amounted to an expropriation of land for which compensation is payable in terms of section 25(2) of the Constitution. This case note looks at the different stages of the case, and in the process highlights the historical and legislative background and the subdivision process. It shows that the vesting of the ownership of roads in the municipality is similar to the payment of a development contribution, both of which can be categorised as deprivations of property in terms of the constitutional property clause. On 1 July 2015 LUPO was effectively superseded by the new Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013 (SPLUMA) and the Western Cape Land Use Planning Act 3 of 2014 (LUPA). Since SPLUMA does not and LUPA does contain a reference to the "normal needs" provision, the implications of Arun for the new legislative dispensation are addressed.

scholarly journals A Psychological Approach to ‘Public Perception’ of Land-Use Planning: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhongqiong Qu ◽  
Yiming Lu ◽  
Zhiqiu Jiang ◽  
Ellen Bassett ◽  
Tao Tan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Jiangsu Province ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Expectation ◽  
Multiple Variables

Public perception and attitudes towards public affairs in the USA since the 1960s become a societal issue of growing importance in the field of planning. Good land-use planning should deliver a bright future vision in a way that unites and inspires groups to implement it. The introduction of public perception into planning helps to understand the process of how the public develop their awareness, value judgments, behavior and attitudes. In this research, we built the framework of public perception in land-use planning based on the affect, behavior, cognition (ABC) theory of consumer behavior. We gathered empirical data for Jiangsu province in China. We used structural equation modeling, a commonly used statistical analysis method for examining the structural relationship between multiple variables. We found that the public perception towards public affairs contributed to forming a multiple iterative interaction effect, which evolves a process from primary cognition to knowledge extraction, internalized absorption, emotional judgement and finally externalization into a certain attitudes and behaviors. On the cognitive level, our research result showed that public expectation and perceived quality have opposite effects on perceived difference and the public expectation is more influential. If the planning vision provides a clear and convincing picture of the future, and the information of planning is easy to understand, the public’s cognition and emotion can be well integrated. The core element of the emotional level is perceived value. The public is more concerned about a new planning project if it can add the value to the land, protect community environment, and improve the condition of low-income and minority populations. On the behavior level, public continuous behavior intentions could enhance perceived value, subjective norms and perceived availability. The research could further account for the root of public attitudes and behavior. This is crucial to China's land-use policy, and may well provide important lessons for other developing countries.

Influence of Location, Population, and Climate on Building Damage and Fatalities due to Australian Bushfire: 1925–2009

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan P. Crompton ◽  
K. John McAneney ◽  
Keping Chen ◽  
Roger A. Pielke ◽  
Katharine Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Safety Concern ◽  
Building Damage ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Emission Of Greenhouse Gases

Abstract This study reevaluates the history of building damage and loss of life due to bushfire (wildfire) in Australia since 1925 in light of the 2009 Black Saturday fires in Victoria in which 173 people lost their lives and 2298 homes were destroyed along with many other structures. Historical records are normalized to estimate building damage and fatalities had events occurred under the societal conditions of 2008/09. There are relationships between normalized building damage and the El Niño–Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean dipole phenomena, but there is no discernable evidence that the normalized data are being influenced by climatic change due to the emission of greenhouse gases. The 2009 Black Saturday fires rank second in terms of normalized fatalities and fourth in terms of normalized building damage. The public safety concern is that, of the 10 years with the highest normalized building damage, the 2008/09 bushfire season ranks third, behind the 1925/26 and 1938/39 seasons, in terms of the ratio of normalized fatalities to building damage. A feature of the building damage in the 2009 Black Saturday fires in some of the most affected towns—Marysville and Kinglake—is the large proportion of buildings destroyed either within bushland or at very small distances from it (<10 m). Land use planning policies in bushfire-prone parts of this country that allow such development increase the risk that bushfires pose to the public and the built environment.

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