scholarly journals Evaluating the Viability of Intensification Around Three Suburban GO Stations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Housing Choice ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Location Policy ◽  
Office Location ◽  
Rail Station

The updated Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2017) requires all GO rail station areas to achieve a minimum density of 150 residents and jobs combined per hectare. Intensification is unlikely to occur without intentional policy and partnerships to encourage development. Mid-rise buildings, the typical residential form needed to meet the intensification target, are often challenging to develop in suburban areas. Similarly, employment intensification can be challenging to achieve without incentives for office location. Policy, politics and market viability all impact intensification. Changes are needed at the provincial, regional and local level to encourage development. Regulatory changes like zoning, partnerships between Metrolinx and developers and/or financial incentives, such as reduced development charges, should be explored to encourage intensification. Suburban GO rail station intensification is an opportunity to achieve multiple policy goals, such as the creation of walkable, affordable communities that increase housing choice. An article on transit station intensification in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, used the keywords: transit oriented development, intensification, Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

scholarly journals Evaluating the Viability of Intensification Around Three Suburban GO Stations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Housing Choice ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Location Policy ◽  
Office Location ◽  
Rail Station

The updated Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe (2017) requires all GO rail station areas to achieve a minimum density of 150 residents and jobs combined per hectare. Intensification is unlikely to occur without intentional policy and partnerships to encourage development. Mid-rise buildings, the typical residential form needed to meet the intensification target, are often challenging to develop in suburban areas. Similarly, employment intensification can be challenging to achieve without incentives for office location. Policy, politics and market viability all impact intensification. Changes are needed at the provincial, regional and local level to encourage development. Regulatory changes like zoning, partnerships between Metrolinx and developers and/or financial incentives, such as reduced development charges, should be explored to encourage intensification. Suburban GO rail station intensification is an opportunity to achieve multiple policy goals, such as the creation of walkable, affordable communities that increase housing choice. An article on transit station intensification in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, used the keywords: transit oriented development, intensification, Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

scholarly journals Wetlands in Ethiopia: Lessons From 20 years of Research, Policy and Practice

Wetlands ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dixon ◽  
Adrian Wood ◽  
Afework Hailu
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Wetland Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Wetland Use

AbstractThroughout sub-Saharan Africa wetlands provide ecosystem services that are critical to the development needs of many people. Local wetland use, however, is often at odds with broader national policy goals in which narratives of conservation and protection dominate, hence a recurring challenge is how to reconcile these tensions through the development of policies and field practice that deliver sustainable development. In this paper we examine the extent to which this challenge has been achieved in Ethiopia, charting the changes in wetlands policy and discourse over the last twenty years while reviewing the contribution of the multidisciplinary Ethiopian Wetlands Research Programme (EWRP) (1997–2000). Our analysis suggests that despite EWRP having a significant legacy in developing national interest in wetlands among research, government and non-governmental organisations, its more holistic social-ecological interpretation of wetland management remains neglected within a policy arena dominated by specific sectoral interests and little recognition of the needs of local people. In exploring the impacts at the local level, recent investigations with communities in Ilu Aba Bora Zone highlight adjustments in wetland use that famers attribute to environmental, economic and social change, but which also evidence the adaptive nature of wetland-based livelihoods.

scholarly journals Punching out: exploring justifications for employment land conversions in the GTA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cogliano
Keyword(s):  
Smart Growth ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Support Employment ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
The City

The current planning framework in the Province of Ontario is based on principles of “smart growth” including transit oriented development, intensification, and a focus on building complete communities. While the advancement of these principles has been positive in certain cases, the literature identifies that industrial lands may face redevelopment pressure as smart growth principles are adopted. This paper provides the opportunity to assess the extent of which this is the case in the context of the City of Markham. A content analysis of twelve employment land conversion applications provides for an on-the-ground case study of how the planning framework in Ontario, informed by smart growth principles, is leveraged by developers to support employment land conversions. Research findings include conflicting interpretations, among stakeholders, of planning policy goals related to employment land. Recommendations include the need for a more consistent articulation of policy goals and a rethink of traditional zoning strategies for industrial lands.

scholarly journals SolarView: Georgia Solar Adoption in Context

Data ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Tidwell ◽  
Abraham Tidwell ◽  
Steffan Nelson ◽  
Marcus Hill
Keyword(s):  
Census Data ◽  
Local Level ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Ecological Factors ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
County Level ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Transition Issues

The local-national gap is a problem currently plaguing the adoption of emerging technologies targeted at resolving energy transition issues that are characterized by disparities in the adoption of innovations and policies on a local level in response to national policy implementation. These disparities reflect a complex system of technical, economic, social, political, and ecological factors linked to the perceptions held by communities and how they see energy development and national/global policy goals. This dataset is an attempt to bridge the local-national gap regarding solar PV adoption in the State of Georgia (U.S.) by aggregating variables from seven different publicly-available sources. The objective of this activity was to design a resource that would help researchers interested in the context underlying solar adoption on the local scale of governance (e.g., the county level). The SolarView database includes information necessary for informing policy-making activities such as solar installation information, a historical county zip code directory, county-level census data, housing value indexes, renewable energy incentive totals, PV rooftop suitability percentages, and utility rates. As this is a database from multiple sources, incomplete data entries are noted.

scholarly journals Conversion of Agricultural Land for Urbanization Purposes: A Case Study of the Suburbs of the Capital of Warmia and Mazury, Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 2325
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kocur-Bera ◽  
Adrian Pszenny
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Data Resolution

Population growth, economic globalization and the launch of market economy instruments have become the main triggers for processes related to the anthropogenization of space. According to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) statistics, the developed area indication tripled in the last 25 years. Humans keep appropriating more natural and semi-natural areas, which entails specific social, economic and environmental consequences. Provisions in some countries’ laws and some economic factors encourage investors to engage in urbanization. The authors of this study noticed a research gap in the analysis of suburban areas in this topic. Our research aimed to analyze the conversion of plots of land used for agricultural purposes into urbanized land in the city’s suburban zone, in areas of high landscape and natural value. We focused on the analysis of geodetic and legal divisions of plots of land and analyzed the conditions of plots of land “ex ante” and “ex post” and the changes in their values. To achieve the research objective, we used Corine Land Cover (CLC) data for various time intervals, orthophotomaps (using the Web Map Service browsing service compliant with Open Geospatial Consortium standards), cadastral data, administrative decisions, data from the real estate market, spatial analyses and statistical modeling (linear, non-linear and stepwise regression). In general, the CLC data resolution enables analysis at regional or national levels. We used them innovatively at the local level because CLC data allowed us to notice the development of the area over time. Detailed research confirmed that, in the studied area, the conversion of agricultural land into developed areas results from economic factors. The division procedure increases the plot value by about 10%. However, the effects of uncontrolled urbanization, which we are currently dealing with, generate long term social and economic losses, difficulties in the labour market and may become a barrier to development.

Local-level Nudging for Renewables in Slovenia: Organisational Aspects and Legal Limitations

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 523-556
Author(s):  
Luka Martin Tomazic
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Local Level ◽  
State Level ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Local Energy ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
National Legal System ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Positive Effect

Proliferation of renewable energy is high on the agenda of the European Union. In it, local government plays an important role. Besides traditional regulatory approaches such as legislation, nudging could have a positive effect on achieving the desired policy goals. This article analyses the legal framework within which the local-level practice of nudging is embedded in the Republic of Slovenia. Since EU-level legislation and ECHR aspects are analysed as well, the application of findings is broader than merely the national legal system. Nudging could be performed either by using the existing infrastructure or through the creation of local energy organisations. Three main groups of legal limitations are identified, namely state-level limitations, GDPR-related concerns and constitutional or human rights considerations. Defaults and individualised informing are emphasized as two of the most promising nudge-types in the field of renewable energy.

scholarly journals Evolution in Public Governance Models: From Administrative Management to the Hybrid and Normative Concept of Good Governance (Part II)

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 125-146
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Political Commitment ◽  
Public Governance ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
Eu Membership ◽  
Partial Implementation

Bulgaria adopts the principles of good governance along with its EU membership. That occurred with harmonization of public policies. The study makes a review on the application of the following principles of good governance: sustainability and long-term orientation in development, effectiveness and efficiency, accountability and transparency and the adoption of these principles at local level. The general evaluation: Bulgaria follows and applies in great extent the principles of good governance, but in the reality, there are numerous deviations, delays and negligence, which lead to their partial implementation. The country needs more political commitment, regulatory changes and institutional efforts to reach better levels of good governance.

Assessing Minimum Parking Requirements and Parking Capacities of Residential Development in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 2674 (11) ◽  
pp. 593-605
Author(s):  
Chakaphan Chullabodhi ◽  
Saksith Chalermpong ◽  
Apiwat Ratanawaraha ◽  
Hironori Kato
Keyword(s):  
Residential Development ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Unit Price ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Land Prices ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Average Unit

This paper examines whether minimum parking requirements affect parking provision in condominiums and what factors determine condominiums’ parking capacities. By calculating actual, required, and excess parking capacities, the paper finds that almost 90% of the sample condominiums in Bangkok and the surrounding municipalities in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region provide more parking spaces than required by law. The parking capacities in condominiums outside Bangkok are almost as high as those in Bangkok, despite their required minimums being half those of Bangkok. Only 11% of the sample condominiums provide the required minimums. The figure has decreased to zero in recent years, likely because of soaring land prices. These results suggest that developers’ decisions to provide parking are not determined by parking requirements but by market demand. Results from regression analyses show that parking capacities are determined by total floor area and number of dwelling units in a project, distance to the nearest transit station, and average unit price. Condominiums located in Bangkok are found to provide significantly more parking spaces than those in the suburban municipalities. This result has important policy implications for transit-oriented development, considering that accessibility to public transit is much better in Bangkok than the suburban areas.

Transforming Principle of ‘Diversity’ of World Rail-Transit Oriented Development Best Practices into Indonesia Rail Station Districts

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 6339-6342
Author(s):  
Dyah Titisari Widyastuti ◽  
Danang Parikesit ◽  
Ikaputra ◽  
Bambang Hari Wibisono
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Rail Station

scholarly journals Re-Assessing TOD index in Jakarta Metropolitan Region (JMR)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (01) ◽  
pp. 26-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herika Muhamad Taki ◽  
Mohamed Mahmoud H Maatouk ◽  
Emad Mohammed Qurnfulah
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Railway Stations ◽  
Gis Application ◽  
Suburban Areas ◽  
Hierarchy Process

Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is believed to be able to overcome the issues of urban transport. However, in practice, the current TOD in Jakarta  Metropolitan Region (JMR) is still a deficiency in accommodating the needs of transportation movement and not in facilitating services in terms of TOD function. The objective of this paper was to re-assess the service quality of actual TOD in 54 commuter railway stations. The paper performed criteria-indicators and measured a composite TOD index by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)-multicriteria model, statistics test, and Geographical Information System (GIS) application. TOD index was found that urban areas have a high TOD index. On the other hand, the suburban areas have a low TOD-index. The statistical test showed that there was a strong correlation between different criteria. This paper concluded that most of the stations which were located in the suburban area had a low index thus need improvement. Consequently, the station areas needed to have a policy relevance.  

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