Main entry:

Healy, Robert G.

Title & Author:

Land use and the States / Robert G. Healy, John S. Rosenberg.

Edition:

2d ed.

Publication:

Baltimore : Published for Resources for the Future by the Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1979.

Description:

xvi, 284 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-279) and index.
Introduction- rights in conflict. The origins of concern ; A role for the states ; A maturing revolution -- A variety of discontents. The problems we see ; Problems to come ; Goals for future planning ; Introducing the case studies -- Vermont- eight years of experience. Vermont's "development crisis" ; The state government's response ; Eight years of Act 250 ; Capability and development plan (1973) ; The Vermont land use plan ; Innovations in tax policy -- California- "saving the coast." "Where's the beach?" ; Proposition 20 ; Permit administration- "everything but glaciers" ; The coastal plan ; The legislature responds ; After the Coastal Act -- Florida- harnessing the growth explosion. A new kind of growth ; A fragile and unique environment ; The birth of land policy ; Critical areas ; Developments of regional impact ; A question of expectations ; Toward a comprehensive land use program -- Alternative approaches to state land use control. What does the state control? ; Who decides? -- Issues in implementing state land use controls. Political power ; Economic issues ; Social issues -- Toward new policies for the states. Criteria for better land policies ; Elements of a state land use policy ; The question of a federal land use law ; A chain of decisions.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

080182284X
9780801822841
0801822858 (pbk.)
9780801822858 (pbk.)

Subject:

Land use United States Planning States.
Utilisation du sol États-Unis États Planification.
Land use.
Planning.
Grondpolitiek.
United States.

Added entries:

Rosenberg, John S., author.
Resources for the Future.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 14216
Call No.: PO533; ID:87-B1527
Status: Available