Download or read book Tax Development Or What Fiscal Foundations for the Next Era of Land Use Regulation in California written by Christopher S. Elmendorf and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposition 13 and successive state constitutional limitations on property taxes put California cities in a fiscal bind. Cities responded by making developers pay “up front” for the cost of infrastructure and other public services. Impact fees, affordable-housing mandates and ad-hoc exactions were tools of the trade. This fiscal model is increasingly at war with the state's goal of ramping up housing production. In San Francisco, for example, the stack of fees and related mandates--in combination with softening rents and rising construction costs--have rendered housing development economically infeasible, notwithstanding that the city's rental market remains one of the least affordable in the nation. This short essay proposes an alternative to impact fees that would serve cities' fiscal needs without deterring development: a progressive parcel tax levied on the allowable building envelope created by an upzoning ordinance. Our proposal has a near precedent in the so-called Mello-Roos taxes used by suburban developers to finance infrastructure for tract-home subdivisions. Given that state law prioritizes infill development, it's high time that the Mello-Roos model be adapted and extended for urban use.
Download or read book Regulation for Revenue written by Alan A. Altshuler and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2000-08-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services. One response to this tension has been a burgeoning movement to raise public revenue by regulating growth. In this timely book, the authors explain that most growing localities now require private developers to finance public improvements as a condition for receiving permits to build. These permit conditions, known as "exactions," are most commonly used to ensure that infrastructure capacity will be adequate to serve the occupants of new real estate developments and to lessen the harmful effects of these developments on other local citizens. Exactions are often used to finance new roads, water and waste disposal facilities, and public open space, but some communities have begun to require developer financing for such services as day care, job training, low-cost housing, and ride sharing. The authors see the dramatic growth of exaction financing as an epochal shift in the character of American land use regulation. A function once isolated from the local government mainstream is now close to heart of fiscal and public works decisionmaking. Politicians find exactions an extremely valuable tactic for resolving land use conflict. Lawyers and developers worry about how to establish appropriate limits on the use of exaction, economists debate their equity and efficiency, and planners consider their effect on urban reform. Regulation for Revenue offers an integrated appraisal of exaction financing, showing that exactions come in many forms and that they can be meaningfully evaluated only by comparison with realistic alternatives. These include growth restrictions, tolerance of infrastructure overload, and increased tax and user charges.
Download or read book Proposition 13 and Land Use written by Jeffrey I. Chapman and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exactions Impact Fees and Dedications written by and published by Section of State & Local Government Law. This book was released on 1995 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Coming Land Policy written by William Thum and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fiscal Impact Guidebook written by Robert W. Burchell and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of Fiscal and Other Economic Analyses of Urban Development Impacts for Land Use Decision making written by James Richard Blackmarr and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Government Tax and Land Use Policies in the United States written by Helen F. Ladd and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an accessible, nontechnical evaluation of the most recent economic thinking on the nexus between local land use and tax policies. In Part I, the author summarizes the literature on the subject and explores theoretical controversies surrounding issues such as land use regulation as a fiscal tool, the effect of taxes on economic activity, and the success of tax policies to promote economic development. In Parts II and III, a group of experts presents new research on areas including the impact of growth on tax burdens and the shift to land value taxation in urban areas. For students, economists, planners, and policy makers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Controlling Land Use for Water Management and Urban Growth Management written by Seymour I. Schwartz and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legal Foundations of Land Use Planning written by Jerome G. Rose and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban planning is a community process, the purpose of which is to develop and implement a plan for achieving community goals and objectives. In this process, planners employ a variety of disciplines, including law. However, the law is only an instrument of urban planning, and cannot solve all urban problems or meet all social needs. The ability of the legal system to implement the planning process is limited by philosophical, historical, and constitutional constraints. Jurisprudence is concerned with societal values and relationships that limit the effectiveness of the law as an instrument of urban planning. When law is definite and certain, freedom is enhanced within the boundaries created by the law. This doctrine of Anglo-American law imposes an obligation on courts to be guided by prior judicial decision or precedents and, when deciding similar matters, to follow the previously established rule unless the case is distinguishable due to facts or changed social, political, or economic conditions The author focuses on seven specific areas of law in relation to land use planning: law as an instrument of planning, zoning, exclusionary zoning and managed growth, subdivision regulations, site plan review and planned unit development, eminent domain, and the transfer of development rights. Jerome G. Rose cites more than one hundred court cases, and the indexed list serves as a useful encyclopedia of land use law. This is a valuable sourcebook for all legal experts, urban planners, and government officials.
Download or read book Let s Look at the Property Tax written by League of Women Voters of California and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics of Land written by Robert C. Fellmeth and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A condensation of Power and land in California, prepared by the Center for Study of Responsive Law.
Download or read book Fiscal Analysis and Land Use Policy in California written by Vicki Elmer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comments on the Urban Development Strategy for California written by California. Task Force on Housing and Construction and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New Land Use Regulation revolution written by Madelyn Glickfeld and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redevelopment in California written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Do Land Use Regulations Matter Why and How written by Charles Joshua Gabbe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American cities face tremendous challenges including housing affordability, rising economic inequality, and climate change. Land use regulatory reform can play an important role in addressing these issues. But, the evolution, determinants, and effects of land use regulations remain unclear. I use Los Angeles as a case study to answer important questions about why and how land use regulations matter. I organize the dissertation as three related but independent papers. The first paper characterizes how land use regulations change. In Los Angeles, zoning designations were largely static between 2002 and 2014; the city rezoned only about two percent of its parcel land area during this period. While rezonings were uncommon, the city adopted new land use regulations or expanded existing regulations, including several transit-oriented development plans, a density bonus ordinance, an adaptive reuse ordinance, and the expansion of historic preservation overlays. In general, this illustrates a bifurcated evolution of regulations. Single-family neighborhoods remain protected, while significant changes occur in downtown Los Angeles and some high-density neighborhoods near transit. The second paper examines why zoning is changed. I use logistic regression models to analyze the relationship between parcel-scale "upzoning" and housing demand factors, supply constraints, the influence of interest groups, and municipal policy drivers. I find that upzoning in Los Angeles follows the path of biggest opportunity and least political resistance. My research supports the "homevoter hypothesis," meaning that concentrations of homeowners deter zoning changes to allow higher densities. The third paper explains how regulations matter for housing production. Using negative binomial regression models, I find strong associations between high-density zoning and multifamily housing production across Los Angeles. In the city's oldest transit-oriented development (TOD) plan area, the average multifamily development was built at 132% of the baseline allowable residential density, 107% of the allowable floor area ratio, and 102% of the allowable height. The regression results and the TOD analysis provide evidence that developers would build more densely, in neighborhoods with housing demand, if land use regulations were more permissive.
