scholarly journals Using Ontario's Development Permit Systems To Implement Metrolinx’s Mobility Hubs In The Greater Golden Horseshoe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Transit Routes ◽  
Vast Network

Through Metrolinx, the province of Ontario seeks to change the sprawling, car dependent character of The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas by introducing a vast network of rapid transit routes along a series of corridors, linked by a series of nodes, called mobility hubs. Following Smart Growth principles, these hubs should be buttressed by transit supportive land-use regulations, but the current land-use planning framework in the region makes such changes difficult. By implementing a little used tool in Ontario's

scholarly journals Using Ontario's Development Permit Systems To Implement Metrolinx’s Mobility Hubs In The Greater Golden Horseshoe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Transit Routes ◽  
Vast Network

Through Metrolinx, the province of Ontario seeks to change the sprawling, car dependent character of The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas by introducing a vast network of rapid transit routes along a series of corridors, linked by a series of nodes, called mobility hubs. Following Smart Growth principles, these hubs should be buttressed by transit supportive land-use regulations, but the current land-use planning framework in the region makes such changes difficult. By implementing a little used tool in Ontario's

scholarly journals Constraints on property rating in the Offinso South Municipality of Ghana

2013 ◽  
pp. 77-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Addai Boamah
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Administration System ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Property Owners ◽  
Municipal Assembly

The potential of property rate has been least tapped by decentralized governments in Ghana. This paper investigates the property rating system in Ghana through a case study of Offinso South Municipality (OSM). Questionnaires were used to gather empirical data from property owners in the municipality. The paper finds that there is inadequate property tax administration system and high public disdain for the property tax in OSM, with a significant association between compliance with the property tax and land use regulations in OSM. The paper suggests that the Offinso South Municipal Assembly (OSMA) should improve its land use planning system to facilitate voluntary compliance with the property tax. OSMA should also address accountability and transparency problems in the property tax system in order to increase public confidence in the tax regime. The OSMA should also improve on the property tax collection modes by computerising the billing and collection processes.

scholarly journals Urban Growth Structure and Travel Behavior in Tehran City

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Mahmood Shoorcheh ◽  
Hamidreza Varesi ◽  
Jamal Mohammadi ◽  
Todd Litman
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Growth Management ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Growth Structure ◽  
Land Use Development

This paper investigates major characteristics of Tehran’s urban growth structure, how various land use factors such as “density”, “diversity”, “design” and “accessibility” affect travel behavior, population growth and land use development, and future travel demands. Tehran city is currently developing in ways that are likely to increase sprawl and automobile-dependency, which increase problems including traffic and parking congestion, consumer costs, traffic accidents, pollution emissions and inadequate mobility for non-drivers. This analysis indicates that the growth management policies in Tehran’s Comprehensive Plan can significantly reduce vehicle travel and associated problems, resulting in a more sustainable urban development path. This information is useful for evaluating the ability of policies such as Smart Growth, New Urbanism and Accessibility Management to help achieve transport-land use planning objectives.

scholarly journals Assessing the Impacts of Smart Growth Policies on Home Developers in a Bi-state Metropolitan Area: Evidence from the Portland Metropolitan Area

Urban Studies ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 2219-2235 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Dong ◽  
John Gliebe
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Location Choice ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Planning Systems ◽  
Portland Metropolitan Area ◽  
Us Cities

While there are many empirical studies examining the effectiveness of smart growth policies, few of them study the perspective of developers, the major urban space producers in US cities. This article assesses the impacts of smart growth policies on home developers in the Portland bi-state metropolitan area by developing home developer location choice models. The study shows that home developers in the region are sensitive to most smart growth policies being implemented in the region, but they react to them differently across the border between Oregon and Washington due to their different land use planning systems. The findings suggest that smart growth policies impact single- and multifamily home developers’ location choices differently and that home developers exhibit strong spatial inertia in their location choice.

From jambanja to planning: the reassertion of technocracy in land reform in south-eastern Zimbabwe?

2003 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 533-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Chaumba ◽  
Ian Scoones ◽  
William Wolmer
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Fast Track ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
And Control

This paper examines the land occupations and fast-track resettlement process in Chiredzi district in Zimbabwe's southeast lowveld, and argues that their broad-brush representation as chaotic, violent and unplanned is misleading. In Zimbabwe the instruments and mechanisms of order assert themselves even in the midst of violent disorder. The on-going deployment of the formal and technical tools and discourses of land-use planning have been instrumental in securing the visibility and legitimacy of Zimbabwe's new settlers. The speed and short cuts of the fast-track land reform process and vagueness of policies to date have in the short term opened up a certain amount of space for negotiation and a degree of leeway and flexibility in land-use planning and allocation. But the danger for the settlers is that, by deploying a discourse rooted in long-held and institutionally embedded Rhodesian traditions of planning and control, they have played into a process that – as so often in Zimbabwe's history – will re-impose coercive land-use regulations that are at odds with their livelihood strategies and seek to vet settlers and so undermine populist claims of redressing inequalities and providing land to the landless and poor.

Parametric Visualization Tools for Land Use Planning towards Improved Green City

2015 ◽  
Vol 747 ◽  
pp. 20-23
Author(s):  
Firza Utama Sjarifudin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Parametric Models ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
Green Building Design ◽  
Parallel Streams ◽  
Urban Conditions

This research proposes a parametric model to be applied in the process of green building design that integrates particular city land use regulations and provide visual feedback to the architect about the setback information, profiles, and Floor Area Ratio that could be integrated with their solutions. In addition, through the use of real-time geospatial inputs, parametric models will add specificity to the site coordinate accounting, neighboring parcels, and land use designation in the solution. Two parallel streams simultaneously investigated, one that checks the local conditions of a single plot and a more global urban conditions considered.

scholarly journals An activity-related land use mix construct and its connection to pedestrian travel

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R Gehrke ◽  
Kelly J Clifton
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Smart Growth ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Land Use Types ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
Land Use Mix ◽  
Trip Frequency ◽  
Pedestrian Travel

Integrating a diverse set of land use types within a neighborhood is a central tenet of smart growth policy. Over a generation of urban planning research has heralded the transportation, land use, and public health benefits arising from a balanced supply of local land uses, including the improved feasibility for pedestrian travel. However, land use mixing has largely remained a transportation-land use planning goal without a conceptually valid set of environmental indicators quantifying this multifaceted spatial phenomenon. In this study, we incorporated activity-based transportation planning and landscape ecology theory within a confirmatory factor analysis framework to introduce a land use mix construct indicative of the paired landscape pattern aspects of composition and configuration. We found that our activity-related land use mix measure, and not the commonly adopted entropy-based index, predicted walk mode choice and home-based walk trip frequency when operationalized at three geographic scales.

Adaptation: Integrative Planning Framework for Adapted Land-Use Planning

2016 ◽  
pp. 51-73
Author(s):  
Harry Storch ◽  
Nigel K. Downes ◽  
Michael Schmidt ◽  
Thi Cam Van Nguyen ◽  
Le Canh Dinh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Planning Framework ◽  
Integrative Planning

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.

Smart Growth and Land-Use Planning

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-192
Author(s):  
Susan M. Opp ◽  
Samantha L. Mosier ◽  
Jeffery L. Osgood ◽  
Mark W. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Smart Growth
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