Comprehensive Land Use Plan : For Areas Within the Jurisdiction of the Maine Land Use Regulation Commission Maine Department of Conservation, Land Use Regulation Commission, Augusta, Maine. Originally Adopted in 1976; Revised in 1983. Contents: Chapter 1 : The Land Use Regulation Commission / Chapter 2 : Natural Resources / Chapter 3 : Development / Chapter 4 : Goals and Policies of the Commission / Chapter 5 : Issues for the Present and the Future / Appendices ; https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/me_collection/1143/thumbnail.jpg
A compilation of fifteen papers presented before a Conference on the Commonwealth's Land Use, plus one additional paper. This Virginia-oriented publication contains papers concerning the developing state-level land-use decisionmaking process, the function of state and local government in land-use decisions, the federal land-use concerns, the alternatives for administering state land-use policy, the development of land-use policy in the Commonwealth, the Virginia Supreme Court's decisions relating to land use, the impact of court decisions on growth management, the open-space regulations of some local governments, the land-use issues affecting development of low- and moderate income housing, the issues associated with interbasin water transfer, the status of areawide waste treatment control, and the American Law Institute's Model Land Development Code. ; edited by J. Paxton Marshall and Waldon R. Kerns ; Proceedings of a conference held on December 2-3, 1975, in Charlottesville, Virginia, sponsored by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Extension Division and the Virginia Water Resources Research Center.
The experiences of a health professional in a land use program in a California County are described: providing health input into the land use planning process by counseling elected and appointed government officials, individual developers, and citizen groups; interpreting existing standards and evaluating proposed ordinances and land use proposals. The significance of such input and the need for guiding standards are emphasized.
This report deals with our work at the CIRED (International Centre for Research on Environment and Development). We did a 6 month-internship working together on the supply side of Nexus Land-Use, a technical and economic model of global land use developed by Gitz and Ollivier (2007). The underlying very general problematic of our work is a better understanding of the interface between agriculture and environment. This report first presents a bibliographic review of the long going effects of intensive agriculture on the environment, and the future challenges that agriculture will have to face as a consequence. We quickly remind the issues related to the global political context. Then we turn to a review of different land use models, and draw a few conclusions for Nexus Land Use itself. We move further to a highlight of the difficulties inherent to the use of databases. Then we deal with methods to improve certain aspects of the supply side of Nexus, such as the representation of yields, spatialization, taking into account water use for irrigation, integrating a new model for livestock production etc. The last part is devoted to the presentation of a simplified model, developed for the European Project MATISSE, and its results.
The inflow of land-based pollutants has decreased productivity of the Chesapeake Bay. Better land-use management practices can improve the service-providing capacity of the bay. Specific approaches to management of pollutant sources are discussed. Solutions to some institutional, ethical, and legislative issues are presented for action on both the individual and collective level in a series of 15 papers. ; Charles W. Coale, J. Paxton Marshall, Waldon R. Kerns, editors
The author initially examines the traditional judicial treatment given master plans. Recent trends indicating a shift in the traditional view are explored and the author contends that Florida's Local Government comprehensive Planning Act of 1975 is at the forefront of these new trends. After discussing in depth the Act's provisions, the author concludes that the success or failure of the Act rides on the courts'interpretationso f the "consistency" provisions, and strongly advocates a broad interpretation.
Book available for download as pdf-files for chapters. Search for ISBN 978-91-86189-11-2 to list them all. See also Table of contents below: CONTENTS Series Preface Christine Jakobsson, Leif Norrgren, Ingrid Karlsson, and Jeffrey Levengood Introduction Ingrid Karlsson, Lars Rydén and Kalev Sepp 1 Landscape and Landscape History Arvo Iital 2 Landscape Functions and Ecosystem Services Kalev Sepp 3 Rural Development in the Belarusian Polesie Area Valentin Yatsukhno 4 The Baltic Waterscape - Lakes, Wetlands, Rivers and the Sea Lars Rydén 5 Mountains and Tundra – Landscapes of Beauty and Wilderness Lars Rydén 6 History of Land Use in the Great Lakes Region Gregory McIsaac 7 From Traditional to Modern Rural Society Diana Mincyte 8 Demographic Development in the Baltic Sea Region Marina Thorborg 9 Economic Development and Work Opportunities in Rural BSR Marina Thorborg 10 Agro- and Rural Tourism in the Baltic Sea Region – A Growing Sector Elena Kropinova 11 Urbanisation and Urban-Rural Cooperation Per G Berg and Lars Rydén 12 Living in the Baltic Waterscape Lars Rydén 13 Sustainable Forestry Ingrid Karlsson 14 Forestry in the European Union Part of the Baltic Sea Region Ingrid Karlsson 15 Forests and Forestry in three Eastern European Countries Marine Elbakidze, Per Angelstam and Valery Tikhomirov 16 Energy Production in the Rural Landscape Lars Rydén 17 Biomass Production in Energy Forests – Short Rotation Plantations Józef Mosiej, Agnieszka Karczmarczyk, Katarzyna Wyporska and Aleh Rodzkin 18 Spatial Planning and Management Kristina L Nilsson and Lars Rydén 19 A Rural Country in Transition – Alternatives for Lithuania Jonas Jasaitis and Ingrid Karlsson 20 Landscape and Maintenance of Water Resources Józef Mosiej, Agnieszka Karczmarczyk and Katarzyna Wyporska 21 Assessment of Sustainable Land Use Alexander Fehér and Michelle Wander 22 Policy and Policy Instruments Karin Hilmer Pedersen and Lars Rydén 23 Policy of Rural Development in Poland Józef Mosiej 24 Russian Land Use – Environmental Legislation Eugene Krasnov, Marja Molchanova and Isa Zeinalov 25 Economic Instruments – Three Interlinkages Between Ecology and Economics Hans Aage 26 Voluntary Instruments and Sustainable Consumption Ingrid Karlsson and Motaher Hossain
Since the early days of nuisance law, but especially since the early twentieth century and the validation of zoning ordinances, land use planning and management have been fundamental roles of local government. As evinced by its state code, the Commonwealth of Virginia recognizes the essential role that localities play in land use planning. The Virginia Code requires that localities create planning commissions, adopt comprehensive plans, and, if the localities have adopted zoning ordinances, establish boards of zoning appeals. As most of the implementation of these mandates is left to individual localities, the form of implementation is not uniform but naturally varies from county to county and city to city.
This paper explores the effects of fiscal competition on local land use. A theoretical analysis considers the tradeoff faced by a local government deciding about the amount of land made available for commercial or residential uses, when its expansion has adverse effects on the quality of life. The analysis shows that, in an environment with mobile tax bases, jurisdictions are subject to fiscal incentives to expand this land use. Fiscal redistribution through equalization grants, however, reduces these incentives. Based on the theoretical analysis, the effect of fiscal competition on commercial and residential land use is investigated empirically using a large dataset of German municipalities. In order to identify differences in the exposure to fiscal competition, I exploit institutional characteristics of the system of fiscal equalization to which these municipalities are subjected. This enables me to provide causal evidence using a regression discontinuity analysis. The results show that commercial and residential land use is expanded 2-3 times faster and agricultural land use declines more rapidly in municipalities exposed to fiscal competition.
An evaluation scheme for transport infrastructure projects, presently adopted by the Dutch government, includes a research challenge to develop a spatial-economic model addressing the indirect impacts of infrastructure measures. Presently several developments in the field of spatial-economic modelling are ongoing in the Netherlands. The Mobilec model is an example of such a development. The Mobilec model is an interregional model, at NUTS3 level, that describes the relationship between productivity, mobility and infrastructure. The current model lacks spatial detail and an adequate modelling of the housing market and labour market. These aspects need to be included to model the location effects. The proposed paper will explore the development of a housing market model, at a spatially detailed level, within the Mobilec framework. The housing market modelling approach should incorporate the context of a strongly regulated housing market in the Netherlands. International state-of-the-art housing market modelling approaches, commonly used in the so-called LUTS models, will be used as starting point of the analysis. In the paper the outline of the residential location model will be presented and some first experiences with a test version of the housing market model in association with Mobilec will be reported.
Governments often used the promise of land as a means to implement policy. Whether the land was in the form of a large grant to a successful explorer, or in the offer of a homestead on the frontier, the motive for such grants was seldom entirely altruistic. Most grants contained stipulations for settlement and cultivation because a growing population was necessary for economic development. Rulers of Florida also offered land grants to encourage a particular religion, to protect shipping, or to establish protection against Indian attacks. When Florida became part of the United States, large sections of the territory were already claimed under various land grants made by Spain or Great Britain. Succeeding United States governments continued to grant land to individuals or companies to stimulate internal improvements or to increase population. In the hands of developers, land grants usually had the desired effect, but in the hands of speculators they tended to decrease population growth. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of land grants on population growth in Orange County, Florida.
Not Available ; International think-tank, such as "Our Common Future' in 1987, the Rio Declaration' and 'Agenda 21' in 1992, and the Johansberg Declaration ' in 2002, have created recognition that concerted efforts are needed to develop sustained land use practices to minimize further harm to natural resources. Maintaining and enhancing the quality of natural resources have emerged as key issues globally (World Bank, 2001). Control over the use of resources on land has emerged as significant issues in natural resource management (Yencken and Wilkinson, 2000), and the land use planning system provides an opportunity to control land use, further conservation of natural resources. The challenge faced by natural resource management agencies either governmental or non- governmental will involve changing perceptions over how land is used (Mitchell et al., 2004). ; Not Available
This report is a part of the results of the EU project TRANSLAND (see Berichte aus dem Institut für Raumplanung 47). The project investigated innovative approaches to the integration of land-use and transport planning in urban regions. The report presents engineering, economic and social-science based theories and empirical studies to explain the interaction between land use and transport - that land use determines traffic flows and that transport infrastructure changes land-use patterns. In addition the report provides an overview of the state of the art of computer models for the simulation of land use and transport. Based on these theories and models the effectiveness of policies to influence land use and transport in urban regions is assessed.
How can accessibility be defined? How useful are different accessibility approaches in evaluating land-use and transport policy strategies? How can the economic benefits associated with accessibility changes be measured? What are the accessibility benefits of having a public transport service available as a transport option for unexpected future use? How can the land-use, transport and accessibility impacts of Dutch compact urbanisation policies implemented in the last decades be measured? The research presented in this thesis seeks to answer these and related questions. Results suggest that current practices in evaluating accessibility in the Netherlands can be improved using geographical accessibility measures within an integrated land-use/transport perspective. Another major outcome is formed by the possible significant benefits associated with option use of public transport services in addition to use and non-use benefits traditionally included in transport policy appraisal. Residents in the service area of regional railway links seemed to be willing to pay significant amounts for the continued availability of the railway links for unexpected future use. Dutch compact urbanisation policies were also shown to have contributed to the land-use and transport-related intentions of the Dutch national government. Without compact urban development urban sprawl would likely have been greater, resulting in greater car use and related environmental impacts, higher congestion and lower accessibility levels, along with stronger fragmentation of wildlife habitats.
A compilation of fifteen papers presented before a conference on land-use issues in Virginia, plus two additional papers. This Virginia-oriented publication discusses the in-place land-use legislation, the planning process, the approaches to land-use policy, the application of land-use controls, water and water quality policy, and the impact of citizen attitudes on land use. Special issues treated include standards for implementing comprehensive plans, alternatives to zoning, rural and urban conflicts, flood-plain management, impacts of new communities and methods of designating land for special purposes, such as agricultural and environmental districts. ; edited by J. Paxton Marshall and Peter M. Ashton ; Conference sponsored by Extension Division, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Virginia Water Resources Research Center.