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Author Holway, Jim, author.

Title Arrested Developments : Combating Zombie Subdivisions and Other Excess Entitlements / Jim Holway with Don Elliott and Anna Trentadue
Published Cambridge, MA : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (60 pages) : illustrations, maps, charts
Series Policy Focus Report
Policy focus series (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
Contents Executive Summary -- Chapter 1: Excess Development Entitlements -- Chapter 2: Legal and Planning Frameworks -- Chapter 3: Stakeholder Perspectives -- Chapter 4: Best Practices -- Chapter 5: Policy Recommendations -- Appendix A: Glossary -- Appendix B: Suitability of Planning Tools and Policy Approaches -- References -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, The Sonoran Institute, and Western Lands and Communities
Summary In the U.S. Intermountain West, the real estate boom and bust of the 2000s left many residential development projects incomplete. Across many of the region's counties, the rate of vacant subdivision parcels ranges from around 15 percent to two-thirds of all lots. From paper plats to partially built subdivisions that require road maintenance and other infrastructure without contributing to the local tax base as planned, excess development entitlements--the rights, granted by local government, to develop land--are compromising the quality of life, distorting growth patterns and real estate markets, and diminishing fiscal health in their communities. This policy focus report, produced in conjunction with the Sonoran Institute, provides information and tools to help cities and counties struggling with problems that stem from arrested developments in their communities -- from health and safety hazards to blight, impacts on existing lot owners, fiscal threats, fragmented development patterns, overcommitted natural resources, and market flooding and distortions. The authors suggest that local governments should build a solid foundation of policies, laws, and programs, in order to facilitate recovery, create more sustainable growth scenarios, improve property values, and pursue land and habitat conservation where those land uses are more appropriate. They should also ensure they have mechanisms in place to adapt and adjust to evolving market conditions. Communities likely to face significant growth pressures would be well served by development management policies that help to align new entitlements and infrastructure investments with evolving market demands. Cities and towns already coping with distressed subdivisions should summon a willingness to reconsider past approvals and projects and to acknowledge problems
Notes "Policy Focus Report/ Code PF037."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Residential real estate -- West (U.S.)
Real estate development -- West (U.S.) -- Finance
Real estate business -- Law and legislation -- West (U.S.)
Real estate business -- Law and legislation
Real estate development -- Finance
Residential real estate
West United States
Form Electronic book
Author Elliott, Donald L., 1957- author.
Trentadue, Anna, author
ISBN 1558443851
9781558443853