The Northeast Regional Center for Rural
Development Land Use Toolbox
Fiscal Impact/Taxation
topic files
American Farmland Trust
Agricultural conservation easements, www.farmlandinfo.org
Description: what is a land easement.
Center for Rural PA
A rural economy reality check, www.ruralpa.org
Description: How rural economy is faring using labor force, jobs and economy data of last decade.
American Farmland Trust
Farmland protection toolbox, www.farmlandinfo.org
Description: Tools & techniques that state/local govt are using to protect farmland.
National Park Service
Rehabilitating historic storefronts, www2.cr.nps.gov
Description: Historical overview, evaluating bldg, deciding on course of action.
West Virginia University Extension
Rural Landowner Liability & posting of land, www.wvu.edu
Description: Landowner's basic guide to liability of their land.
West Virginia University Extension
Best Mgmt practices-soil/water conservation, www.wvu.edu
Description: Measures to preserve soil and water quality.
West Virginia University Extension
Questions about forestry & forestland, www.wvu.edu
Description: How to manage your forest; what is its worth; where to go for information.
West Virginia University Extension
Treatment of Acid Mine drainage in watersheds, www.wvu.edu
Description: How Acid mine drainage is treated by vertical flow wetlands or SAPS.
Penn State Extension
Sewage Sludge in PA: It's regulations, cropsoil.psu.edu
Description: A plain english tour of sewage sludge regulations.
Penn State Extension
Using employment data to better understand your economy, pubs.cas.psu.edu
Description: 6 Tools w/explanation to understand your economy.
Penn State Extension
Analysis of recent trends in rural PA, ecd.aers.psu.edu
Description: Population growth/decline; employment and unemployment; earnings and income.
Penn State Extension
Road to 2004: Update on PA, ecd.aers.psu.edu
Description: Report targeting economic change-primarily employment in PA.
Penn State Extension
Economic Impact Model -CIM:PSU, cimpsu.aers.psu.edu
Description: Understanding economic structure and how changes in every facet e.g govt,educ affect each other.
Penn State Extension
Farmland protection and GIS, lal.cas.psu.edu/
Description: How GIS helps PA prioritize farmland for preservation.
UM Extension
Agricultural/demographic changes in Mid Atlantic region, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Report detailing implications for ethinic/specialty produce.
UM Extension
Sources of Info and guidance for Forest Stewards, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Resources for Forestland management.
UM Extension
Developing a Forest Stewardship Plan, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: The key to forest and woodland management.
UM Extension
Landowner costs & benefits of riparian buffer, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet w/advantages of riparian buffers .
UM Extension
Integrated pond management - MD, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet w/broad overview of pond management.
UM Extension
Introduction to wildlife managememt, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact sheet w/guidelines of basic wildlife management.
UM Extension
Farmland preservation- an estate planning tool, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Agricultural land preservation can help tax burden etc.
UM Extension
Guidelines for selecting farmland, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Considerations in making the decision, creating a business plan.
Cornell Coop Extension
Comprehensive economic development strategy, www.stcplanning.org/
Description: Regional Community Development Plan--Executive Summary.
NY State Interagency Task Force
State & Local Govts Partnering for a better NY, www.state.ny.us
Description: Multifaceted/Interdisciplinary study of issues impacting creation of communities.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design workbook - introduction, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Explains audience and goals of rural design workbook; explains each chapter & appendices.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design workbook - Ch 1-, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Why do we need better design?.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Workbook - Ch 2, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Conservation Design Method - how to design site with conservation in mind.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Wkbk Ch5, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Good Design - Stuart Site 120acre hilltop site.
Cornell Coop Extension
Rural Design Wkbk Ch 10, www.stcplanning.org
Description: Good Design - Clarke site - 600 acre bicentennial farm.
Cornell Coop Extension
Revitalizing coommunity: a comparative case study, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Rept on 4 communities attempting to address needs, set goals, solve problems within their communities.
Cornell Coop Extension
Benefits & Burdens of Diverse Asset Building, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Development strategies in NY's canal corridor communities.
Cornell Coop Extension
Building a Balance: Housing Affordability, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Discussion, opinions and options for Smart Growth in NYC.
Cornell Coop Extension
Sustaining rural landscape by building community social capital, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: How social capital works in communites in an urban environment.
Cornell Coop Extension
Ag Visioning Pilot Project Rept summary, www.cardi.cornell.edu
Description: What agriculture provides in the non-farming community.
Cornell Coop Extension
Small business education & leadership development, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Importance of small business; and the changing trends.
Cornell Coop Extension
Cultural Diversity in Rural communities, www.cdtoolbox.org/community_planning
Description: Intercultural programs; oral history; racial equality.
CT Dept of Environmental Protection
Environmental Land Use Restrictions, www.dep.state.ct.us
Description: Guidelines for Environmental Land use.
CaRDI
Smart Growth -more choices-better places, www.cardi.cornell.edu
Description: Power Point presentation- Smart growth principles and trends.
American Farmland Trust
Conservation options for CT farmland, www.farmland.org
Description: A guide for landowners, land trusts and municipalities.
American Farmland Trust
2004 Farm Conservation Tax Update, www.farmlandinfo.org
Description: Up to date farm conservation tax information .
National Governors Assn
Reaping Rewards of Pedesterian/bike/walk friendly places, www.nga.org
Description: Power Point: Hows & whys of desiging healthy community.
National Governors Assn
Integrating affordable housing w/state development policy, www.nga.org
Description: Implementing housing strategies to improve communities .
National Governors Assn
New Community Design to the Rescue, www.nga.org
Description: Comprehensive rept on New Community Design Principles.
Center for Community Change
Strengthening Rural Economies: Programs that target economic sectors of local economy, www.huduser.org
Description: 4 studies detailing economic strategies producing opportunities & jobs for low income folks.
Preservation Trust of Vermont
10 Reasons why Vermont's homegrown economy matters, www.ptvermont.org
Description: 50 Proven ways to restore and revive it.
Preservation Trust of Vermont
State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org
Description: Front Page .
Preservation Trust of Vermont
State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org
Description: Authors Notes to publication.
Preservation Trust of Vermont
State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org
Description: Design principles; rules, laws, process affecting highway projects.
Preservation Trust of Vermont
State Highway project in your town: A primer for citizens & public officials, www.ptvermont.org
Description: Laws, reports and opinions.
CERC
Rural Economic Issues for the 21st century, www.cerc.columbia.edu
Description: Rural economic development not dependent on feds, using local capabilities.
ICMA
Revitalizing Brownfields into greenspace-Ch 3, icma.org
Description: Variety of funding opportunities for funding greenspace.
ICMA
Revitalizing Brownfields into greenspace-Ch 4 case study , icma.org
Description: Case Study - Parque Ninos.
NADO Research Foundation
The State of Metro and Rural Brownfields, www.nado.org
Description: Feedback/discussion about impact of redevelopment of brownfields.
National Governors Assn
Brownfields Projects to improve public health, www.nga.org
Description: Benefits in health as well as improved active living.
National Governors Assn
Attacking sprawl by revitalizing older communities, www.nga.org
Description: Benefits of Brownfield redevelopment of older communitites.
National Governors Assn
Fixing It First: Improving present infrasturcture, www.nga.org
Description: Build/maintain present assets before creating new ones.
National Governors Assn
Building 21st century communities: State Govt role, www.nga.org
Description: Power Point: community building in many facets.
National Park Service
River Dynamics and Erosion, www.crjc.org
Description: Stabilization of your stream --or not .
NPS
Streambank stabilization for Conn river watershed, www.crjc.org
Description: How to stabilize streambeds in the Conn River Watershed.
NPS
Prioritizing Erosion sites for Restoration , www.crjc.org
Description: Why control erosion along the conn river.
MD Dept of Planning
Big Box Retail Development, www.mdp.state.md.us/
Description: Impact, regulation and implications of big-box store development.
Smart Growth - governors office -MD
Smart Growth Best Practices - Parking, www.smartgrowth.state.md.us
Description: Smart growth study of parking strategies that meet BP mgmt.
Funders Network
Vacant properties & Smart Growth , www.fundersnetwork.org
Description: Reclaiming vacant properties and abandoned buildings.
Smart Growth
Transit oriented development, www.nipc.cog.il.us
Description: Creating mixed use higher density communitites.
NewHampshire Dept Resource & Economic Development
Planting Trees in designed & built community landscapes, www.state.nh.us
Description: Helping citizens create community green spaces.
NEFA
Forest Land & public finance, www.nefainfo.org
Description: Focus on public finance implications; govt spending, taxes that determine land use.
NEFA
Economic importance of the northeasts forests, www.nefainfo.org
Description: The importance of forest based mfg, recreation, tourism NE economy.
NEFA
Recommendations for conservation of northern forest region: VT, NY, ME, NH, www.nefainfo.org
Description: Facts, information, research presented in making recommendations.
USDA Forest Service
Sustainability assessment highlights for Northern US, www.na.fs.fed.us
Description: Snapshot of todays forest and a baseline for tracking future trends.
USDA Forest Service
Role of Forest Svc & state forest agencies in the NE in sustainable forest mangement, www.na.fs.fed.us
Description: Brief discussion of sustainability & sustainable forest management.
Western PA Conservancy
WPC Land use policies and guidelines, www.paconserve.or
Description: Specific guidelines for use of WPC lands.
DCNR
State Forest Resoource Mgmt Plan, www.dcnr.state.pa.us
Description: Comprehensive overview of Forest resource mgmt plan.
Univ of Tenn Ag Extension Svc
Prioritize Forest Use, www.utextension.utk.edu
Description: Comprehensive self assessment of forest use and BMP management plan.
Univ of Tenn Ag Extension Svc
Forest Practice Guidelines - Tenn, www.utextension.utk.edu
Description: Authoritative reference about forest mgmt practices & input for wise policy decisions.
Univ of Tenn Ag Extension Svc
Managed Forests for healthy ecosystmes, www.utextension.utk.edu
Description: Multi-use & sustained yield mgmt techniques including contemporary ecosystems concerns.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Rural/Urban Conflict, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: Why people are moving to the country; and how to co-exist .
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
NonPoint source pollution - a threat to our water, www.planningwithpower.org
Description: Recognize non-point pollution; its impact; and controlling it.
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Relationship between land use decisions and impact on our natural resources & water, www.planningwithpower.org
Description: What are these decision and what can we do? BMP's etc..
Purdue Coop Extension Svc
Tax treatment of conservation easements, www.ces.purdue.edu
Description: What are conservation easements--tax implications.
Trails & Greenways Clearinghouse
Benefits of Trails and Greenways, www.trailsandgreenways.org
Description: Fact Sheet: benefits and information on why to create trails and greenways.
Trails & Greenways Clearinghouse
Trails/greeways for livable communities, www.trailsandgreenways.org
Description: Fact sheet: defining greenways/trails and benefits to community.
Trails & Greenways Clearinghouse
Health benefits of trails & greenways, www.trailsandgreenways.org
Description: Fact sheet: health benefits of walking-physical activity.
Trails & Greenways Clearinghouse
Enhancing the environment with trails/greenways, www.trailsandgreenways.org
Description: Fact sheet: trails/greenways encourage conservation.
Trails & Greenways Clearinghouse
Economic benefits of trails/greenways, www.trailsandgreenways.org
Description: Fact sheet:economic boons to communities.
Trails & Greenways Clearinghouse
Historic preservation through trails/greenways, www.trailsandgreenways.org
Description: Fact sheet: adding historic preservation to community identity.
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Citizens guide to preserving historic places, www.nationaltrust.org
Description: Primer describing background of historic preservation;cardinal land use principles.
USDA
Ag Resources & Environmental Indicators-Land Use, www.ers.usda.gov
Description: Major land uses; changes and conflicts.
USDA
Wildlife resource conservation, www.ers.usda.gov
Description: Tradeoffs of agriculture and conservation.
USDA
Partial interests in Land: Contents, www.ers.usda.gov
Description: Table of Contents and acknowledgements.
USDA
Partial interests in Land: Contents, www.ers.usda.gov
Description: General information of partial land ownership.
Brookings Institute
The opportunity to rebuild America, www.brookings.edu
Description: A series of projected trends to determine estimated demand for new housing and commercial-industrial space.
AFT & CBF
Conserving Washington-Baltimore Green network, www.farmland.org
Description: Mapping a coordinated green network in the region.
Land Trust Alliance
Minimizing Liability for public access on private lands, www.lta.org
Description: Overview of liability issues.
Land Trust Alliance
Mortgage Subordination: when is it necessary, www.lta.org
Description: When a mortgage subordination should be used w/easements.
Enterprise Foundation
Healthy housing, healthy families, www.enterprisefoundation.org
Description: Trends that point to progress in improving health prospects of low income families through providing affordable housing.
Enterprise Foundation
Schools, Community and Development:Erasing the boundaries, www.enterprisefoundation.org
Description: Results of 4 neighborhoods connecting community based revitalization w/school reform.
Smart Growth Network
Our built and natural environments, www.epa.gov
Description: A technical review of the interaction of land use, transportation and environmental quality.
Smart Growth Network
Parking Alternatives: Making way for urban infill and brownfield redevelopment, www.smartgrowth.org
Description: A guide to vehicular parking requirements--generic formulas that are not working and some alternatives.
Smart Growth Network
Transportation & Environmental impact of infill vs.greenfield development , www.epa.gov
Description: Comparative study of location one infill and one urban greenfield.
Smart Growth Network
Supporting environmental excellence & Smart Growth, www.epa.gov
Description: Summary of Atlantic Steel project - Environmental analysis.
EPA
Making the brownfield-transportation link, www.epa.gov
Description: Smart growth options for metropolitan areas.
EPA
Community Choices:Thinking through land conservation, development; taxes, www.tpl.org
Description: Study of relationship between property tax bills and land conservation.
Trust for Public Land
Economic benefits of parks and open space, www.tpl.org
Description: How land conservation helps communities grow smart and protect the bottom line w/intro, 7chapters and endnotes.
Trust for Public Land
Connecticut: A legacy of land, www.tpl.org
Description: Annual report on protection of open space.
Trust for Public Land
Local greenprinting for growth: Vol 1, www.tpl.org
Description: Defining a conservation vision,and funding it.
Trust for Public Land
Vol 2: How to define a conservation vision, www.tpl.org
Description: Tools and resources to create the vision,and assess open space.
Trust for Public Land
Vol 3: How to secure conservation funding, www.tpl.org
Description: Identify, define, evaluate ways to secure quality funding.
Northeast Midwest Institute
Smart Growth and the clean air act, www.nemw.org
Description: Study attempting to reconcile contrasting views of clean air act.
Smart Growth Network
Why Smart Growth? A primer, www.epa.gov
Description: Smart growth recognizes the connection between development & quality of life.
Smart Growth Network
Best develoment practices: A primer for smart growth, www.epa.gov
Description: Good community development defined in operational terms.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Alternatives to Sprawl, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Dealing with sprawl and less destructive patterns of development.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Bringing neighbors in vs. Buying them out, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Transferring land readjustment to university neighborhood redevelopment projects.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Building Jerusalem: Can land use planning affect economic growth, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The way land use planning can impact economic growth and welfare .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Curb parking: Ideal source of local revenue, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Curb parking and it's inherent problems .fixing it!.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Current-use property assessment and land development , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A theoretical & empirical review of development penalties.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Detection of QFHD by GIS information systems, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How to detect QFHD's without standardized deifinition & how to create this definition.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Downtown living: A Deeper Look, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: 7 key findings to deeper downtown living.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Easements, Covenants and Servitudes: Traditional Limitations and Future Trends , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Current status of nonpossessory rights in property.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Educating policymakers and communities about sprawl, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Defining sprawl and crafting working policies to respond to suburban growth ..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Effects of land and housing policies on market performance, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Growing recognition of economic/social importance of land, housing and real property.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Employment access; neighborhood quality; residential location choice, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Residential location outcomes of white and black households with variety of neighborhood attributes influencing labor markets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Environmental amenitites, urban sprawl, and the economic landscape, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Theory of leapfrog development patterns and the associated economic landscape.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Political economoy of two rate property taxation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: In favor of taxing land value more heavily than building values, and why the US hasn't adopted such a plan.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Estimating the external effects of subsidized housing investment on property values, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Subsidized housing investments can produce substantial sustainable external benefits.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Ethics, business,and land, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Talk on ethical practices.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Farming Inside Cities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Characteristics of entreprenurial urban agriculturel; key obstacles to it's practice.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Fortress communities: The walling and gating of American suburbs, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Gated communities and the social implications.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Full Disclosure: Unexpected Improvements in Property tax administration and uniformity, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Limiting property tax and it's influence.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Have American planners lost their values, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Types of planning tools used in the United States to minimize the adverse effects and costs of development or to maximize public benefits. .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Homeownership: Low household mobility,volatile housing prices, high income dispersion, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How home ownership affects local housing markets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Housing Modes, Impediments and Opportunities , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The need for affordable housing on US rural land for low income people .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Housing segregation in the US: Does race matter?, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This study explores neighborhood amenities and characteristics that families seek out upon racial lines.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Identifying the real costs/benefits of sports facilities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Economic development of sports facilities and full costs and benefits.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Implementing a land value tax in urban residential communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Potential for modern mass appraisal methods to separate values for residential properties between land and buildings.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Implications of a split rate real property tax, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Study data on property to explore redistribution of real property tax liability.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
In search of new life for smaller cities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Small cities struggling for relevance.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Inequality, segregation and housing markets, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A theoretical framework of social theory with comparative qualitative inquiry.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Introduction to environmental insurance, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Insurance coverage available for brownfields redevelopment.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land & Biodiversity conservation: a leadership dialogue, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Discussion about land conservation challenges in the 21st century.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land assembly for development: Something borrowed, something new, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Land pooling and making use of previously developed land.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land assembly, Land readjustment, and Public-private redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: What is applicability of land re-adjustment, and case study.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land use and design innovations in private communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Proliferation of private communities is causing a transition from private ownership to collective governance.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Working across boundaries, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A framework for regional collaboration.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Planners & economists debate land market policy, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Regulation within a market economy and the unintened consequences.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land market understanding is the basis for smart change, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A comprehensive study of land use policies, financial strategies that influence capital markets, conservation, smart growth etc..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land supply and infrastructure capacity monitoring for smart urban growth , www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Urban growth processes and growth management policy.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land value taxation and eco-taxation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The social and economic inter-relationship.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Land value taxation views, concepts, and methods: A primer, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Underlying concepts and principles of value, modern adaptation of land value taxation.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Local property tax reform: Prospects and politics, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Basic prospects for property tax reform.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Local property taxation: An assessment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Traditional tax theory,and public choice perspectives.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Model solutions to revitalize urban industrial areas, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Various approaches to revitalization of urban indurstrial areas.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Scholars explore insights of Henry George, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Chapter summaries from "Land Use and Taxation".
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Natural Cities: Urban ecology and the restoration of urban ecosystems, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Framework for urban ecosystem research: policies and tools.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Guide book on negotiating land disputes, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Using Assisted negotiation in land disputes.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Overcoming obstacles to Brownfield and vacant land redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How brownfield redevelopment can occur.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Permit coordination study, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper studies coordination of land use regulatory programs. It consists of an introduction and general observations, a review of current and recent literature, and two case analyses..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Planners & economists debate land market policy, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: New policy-relevant analysis on land markets and their regulation.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Planning for sustainable development: measuring progress in plans, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This study sets forth a set of six principles that define and operationalize the concept of sustainable development..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Preferential property tax treatment of land, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Comparative analysis of key legal and administrative features of preferential property taxt treatment of agricultural, forest, open space and recreational land in the US..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Principles for community and college interaction, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Discussion of interaction with college and community interaction.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Effects of urban containment on housing prices and landowner behavior, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: To explore the implications of these two faces of urban containment as smart growth policy,.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Regional planning in America: updating earlier visions, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Discussion of concerns first raised in the 1920s that remain largely unresolved: the impacts of suburban sprawl on cities and countryside; how to reconcile the automobile and highways with the design of communities and regions; and the need for high-quali.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Promoting more equitable brownfield development, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Identifying promising approaches for improving redevelopment prospects of least marketable brownfield sites found in depressed urban neighborhoods.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Property tax reform and smart growth: connecting some of the dots, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Tax policy tools for smart growth.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Property taxation and current use assessment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper discusses the relationships between property taxation and patterns of land use..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Prospects for land rent taxes in state and local tax reforms, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper develops a general equilibrium model of an economy that produces output using capital, labor and land as inputs. It further develops an approach that allows specific parameters in the model to be matched to data in such a way as to ensure that .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Public values and conservation land: A case study in MA, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper explores public values and attitudes toward conservation land by tracing the history of a proposed conversion of town conservation land to water supply purposes in Weston, Massachusetts.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Redeveloping urban brownfields, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The environmental and financial challenges of dealing with these sites represent serious barriers to potential urban revitalization.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Reexaming the property tax exemption, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Government-owned property is exempt from local taxes almost everywhere in the United States, but this situation is based less on logic than on now-outdated historical considerations..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Regulating subdivisions in Massachusetts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Practices and outlooks; survey of public officials.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban land as common property, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Public/private land rights discussion.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Resisting the reality of race: land use, social justice and metropolitan economy, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper examines how problems of racial discrimination complicate three mutually reinforcing difficulties of the American metropolis: social inequality, economic inefficiency, and damage to land-use and the environment.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Resolving Land use conflicts through mediation: 8 case studies, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: 8 case studies from oregon to PA.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Roles of community based organizations in brownfield redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Learning how to partner with other sectors and when to bring these partners into a brownfields project is an important aspect of successful brownfields redevelopment for CBOs ...
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
School finance litigation and property tax revolts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How undermining local control turns voters away from public education.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
School finance, spatial segregation and the nature of communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How school finance policies affect the nature of communities.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Schools and housing markets, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper examines the relationship between house price levels, school performance, and the racial and ethnic composition of Connecticut school districts..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Self help and self managed housing, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Comparison between self help housing in the US and less developed countries.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Sprawl?, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A study of urban land use across the continental US tracking urban changes..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
State planning in the Northeast, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Do'/dont's of building state planning programs and establishment of economic development program for the NE corridor.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Subdivision regulations: practices & attitudes, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Survey of public officials and developers in single family housing markets.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Taxes on buildings and land in a dynamic model of real estate markets, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Generalized perfect foresighted model of real estate markets and effects of ad valorem property tax are explored .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Adoption and repeal of 2 rate property tax in NY, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Successes and failures of two rate property tax rate.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Case of the disappearing city: redistribution without growth, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Describing the geography of vacant land in cities especially in NY.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The changing politics of urban mega projects, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Rise of political power in land development projects.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The debate over future density of development, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Subjective debate of major positions over future density..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The economics of the causes and benefits/costs of urban spatial segregation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This paper shows that even with elimination of instituitional practices that hinder spaital integration, market factors would still drive some form of spatial integration..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Ghetto and the ethnic enclave, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: There is a difference between the ghetto and the ethnic enclave.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Ideologies of urban land use politics, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The adaptation of local government in changing times.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The impacts of urban form on travel, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How the built environment may or may not influence travel behavior.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The landscape of ideas on property rights, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Observations of land rights issues`.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The legacy of contamination and redevelopment of inner city industrial districts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This study examines the role land contamination plays in hindering central city industrial redevelopment..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Legal requirements regarding valuation of land and improvements for property tax purposes, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Does state law determine whether land must be valued separately from improvements ...
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The location of non-profit facilities in urban areas, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Theoretical considerations that distinguish location behavior of non profits from service providers.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
New Urbanism: Hype or Hope for american communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Policy focus report addressing the issue of new urbanism.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The new urbanism challenges conventional planning, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: promises and problems of new urbanism.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The price elasticity of the demand for residential land, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Estimation and implications of tax code related subsidies on urban form.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The tax treatment of housing and it's effect on bounded and unbounded communities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Federal tax treatment of owner occupied housing has divergent impacts on communities within metropolitan areas..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Roles of community based organizations in brownfield redevelopment and other vacant property redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Case studies of CBO's: barriers, successes and key factors.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Ties that bind, bridge and constrain:social capital and segregation in the american metropolis, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Race, space, social connection and inequality.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Traditional methods and new approaches to land valuation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: New approaches to valuating land.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Transfer of development rights for balanced development, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: TDR: obstacles and opportunities.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Transportation and land use, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: the complexity of transportation and land use.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban ethnic segregation and the scenarios spectrum, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Different aspects-degrees of urban segregation.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban spatial segregation and social differentiation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: A typological analysis.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban Sprawl, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Causes and consequences of sprawl ..and beyond.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban vacan lot redevelopment, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Challenges and progress ...
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Valuing land and improvements: State laws and local govt practices, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Research results are positive indicators of need for land value tax reform.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Visualizing Density - phase 2, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Overview of the "density" problem .
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Visualizing Density - phase 2 - the images, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Photographs of density scenarios w/facts.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Visualizing Density - phase 2 more images, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Additional photos of density ..
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
What politicians know about land taxation, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: Case for efficiency/fairness of land based tax system.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Why do we have urban density controls?, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Density controls make residents worse off, justifications and analysis.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Regionalism on purpose, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: The challenges facing regionalism.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Law and the production of urban illegality, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: discussion of law & legality in the context of urban development.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Urban land as common property, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: draw the line--public or private rights in land.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Communications technology and settlement patterns, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: growing technology and its impact on settlement patterns.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
New urbanism challenges conventional planning, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: redefining the american metropolis.
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Effects of urban density on rail transit, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Article: urban density has metro cities looking at rail transportation.
DCNR
Greenways: An action plan for creating connections, www.dcnr.state.pa.us
Description: Coordinated and strategic approach to creating connections throughs greenways in the state.
US Global Change Research Info
Do we still need nature? The importance of biological diversity, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Biodiversity and the land.
US Global Change Research Info
Impacts of introduced species in the US, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Foreign species destruction of US habitats.
US Global Change Research Info
Potential impacts of climate change on Agriculture, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: How the environmental changes will affect agricultural production.
US Global Change Research Info
America's water supply: prospects for the future, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Comprehensive discussion of water, and its future.
US Global Change Research Info
Past & present land use and land cover in the US, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Article on various types of land use, and our future.
Dept of the Interior - USGS
Water: Potential consequences of environmental changes for water resources in the US, www.gcrio.org
Description: Report of water assessment team of USGS of changes in water resources.
US Global Change Research Info
Education for sustainability, www.usgcrp.gov
Description: Public awareness & education regarding sustainable development extension networks.
Conservation in Practice
Urbanization's Aura, www.conbio.org
Description: Tracking urban sprawl with light maps.
Conservation in Practice
Creating habitat on Farms: The Land stewardship program, www.conbio.org
Description: Monitoring agricultural land practices.
Conservation in Practice
Curbing roadside erosion, www.conbio.org
Description: Soil bioengineering as alternative to concrete and steel.
Conservation in Practice
Fallacy of passive management:Managing for firesafe forest reserves, www.conbio.org
Description: Passive approach to forest management not necessarily sustainably healthy.
FindLaw
Municipal groundwater supply regulation, library.findlaw.com
Description: Limitations of existing management framework.
Conservation in Practice
Making collaboration work: case studies , www.conbio.org
Description: Lessons learned, assessment and problem solving for environmental management.
USDA
Assessing conditions of Riparian-wetland corridors , ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov
Description: Using proper functioning condition methodology -an assessment tool.
USDA
Collaborative community conservation, ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov
Description: Local participating in recognizing resource problems and opportunities.
USDA
Collaboration in Partnerships: Watershed initiative, ftp-fc.sc.egov.usda.gov
Description: Norwalk River walk watershed initiative.
USDA
US Forest Facts and Historical Trends, fia.fs.fed.us
Description: Renewable forest resources assessment.
Smart Growth Network
Washington, DC open space in jeopardy, www.smargrowth.org
Description: Article: Developers bulldoze up to 43 sq miles daily.
Washington Post
Region's Green Space going fast, www.washingtonpost.com
Description: Article: Loss of green space continues to accelerate.
Smart Growth Network
Builders protest smart growth law: State defends process, www.sgli.org
Description: State holding fast on focus of affordable near transit options.
Smart Growth Network
EPA-NOAA partnership on coastal community growth, www.epa.gov
Description: Scope of activities of partnership.
Smart Growth Network
Smart growth audit of zoning code and subdivision regulations, www.sgli.org
Description: Final report,analysis and proposed recommendations.
Smart Growth America
Housing: a better place to live, www.smartgrowthamerica.org
Description: Article: Finding a better place to live; affordability; market.
AMPO
Metro Planning Org Conference presentations, www.ampo.org
Description: Power Point presentations: walkable communities; transportation & land use; best practices; air quality and more.
Smart Growth Network
Plan to use CPT funds for Smart Growth upsets officials , www.smartgrowthi.org
Description: Article: Gov transfer of funds cause uproar in MA.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 1, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: General provisions of these local ordinances.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 2, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Administrative Agencies.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 3, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: General procedural requirements.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 4, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Zoning ordinances.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 5, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Subdivision regulations.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 6, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Design and improvement standards.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 7, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Supplemental use regulations.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Article 8, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Non-conforming uses.
VA City Govt-Smart Growth
Unified Development Ordinance - Appendix B, www.suffolk.va.us
Description: Submission Requirements.
MD Dept of Planning
Models and guidelines for Infill development, www.mdp.state.md.us
Description: Offering remedies that overcome barriers and identifying alternative approaches.
MD Dept of Planning
Smart Neighborhoods, www.mdp.state.md.us
Description: Report examines characteristics of existing traditional neighborhoods.
Center for Watershed protection
Recommended model development principles for Frederick, MD, www.cwp.org
Description: How Frederick MD adopted 22 design principles within their community.
HUD
Barriers to Rehabilitation of affordable housing, www.huduser.org
Description: In partnership w/ historic preservation trust, an examination of existing major barriers to urban rehabilitation .
HUD
A builders guide to marketable, affordable, durable entry level homes, www.huduser.org
Description: Resource manual of technologies and practices to build entry level affordable homes.
HUD
A report on the feasibility of deconstruction, www.huduser.org
Description: Report: Selective dismantling or removal of materials before or instead of demolition.
HUD
Building better homes at lower costs, www.huduser.org
Description: The industry implementation plan for residential national construction goals.
HUD
Building innovation for homeownership, www.huduser.org
Description: A collection of award winning, innovative housing projects.
HUD
Creating Defensible Space, www.huduser.org
Description: Safeguarding our communities with Defensible Space; the theory encompasses a wide range of planning and design strategies that focus attention on reassigning the perceived ownership of residential space. .
HUD
Industralizing the residential construction site, www.huduser.org
Description: Examines the means and methods available for integrating and industrializing the housing construction site and the housing industry.
HUD
The practice of low impact development, www.huduser.org
Description: This publication is intended to assist these groups by 1) providing basic conventional and innovative land development technology information, and 2) encouraging the amendment of existing development codes to facilitate the use of those technologies..
HUD
Overview of retrofit strategies:Guide for multifamily units , www.huduser.org
Description: This publication describes techniques property managers may use to conserve water, with approaches requiring modest investment and minimal construction..
HUD
Life cycle assessent tools to measure environmental impacts, www.huduser.org
Description: The report presents a critique of LCAs, and offers suggestions on how they could be made more useful in the home building industry. .
HUD
Environmental assessment guide for public housing, www.huduser.org
Description: The focus of this Guide is on environmental conditions on the grounds of public housing, near the property and in the surrounding neighborhood..
HUD
Study of HUD's site contamination policies: final report, www.huduser.org
Description: Review/assess/analyze with conclusions and recommendations from 7 tasks developed for the report.
HUD
An overview of deconstruction with a focus on community development opportunities, www.huduser.org
Description: What is innovative and exciting is how communities can use this process-deconstruction-to support and complement other community objectives..
HUD
Innovative rehabilitation provisions, www.huduser.org
Description: This report shows in detail how to apply the NARRP provisions. It provides a side-by-side comparison of traditional rehabilitation provisions with the NARRP and the code from which the provisions were developed,.
HUD
Assessment of state brownfield initiatives, www.huduser.org
Description: Study: gain a better understanding of current regulatory and economic development initiatives that can help promote economic revitalization..
HUD
Valuation of metropolitan quality of life in wages and rents, www.huduser.org
Description: Analysis: value that residents place on metropolitan amenities in land and labor market.
HUD
Positive homeownership attitudes and behavior in poor urban neighborhoods, www.huduser.org
Description: this study examines the degree to which neighborhood poverty constraints, household economics, and demographic variables influence positive homeownership attitudes, homeownership behavior, and neighborhood ties..
HUD
Aging in place in multifamily housing, www.huduser.org
Description: Study: of one segment of multifamily housing (1) the extent of aging in place in multifamily housing, as measured by the number and proportion of householders age 60 or older, and (2) the level of environmental support for aging in place in these develop.
HUD
The struggle for housing equality, www.huduser.org
Description: This article considers how the Fair Housing Act and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) structure local housing advocacy..
HUD
The effects of federal & local housing programs on transition from welfare to work, www.huduser.org
Description: This article examines two hypotheses that explain how federal and local housing programs influence the transition from welfare to work.
HUD
Homeowing: social outcomes, tenure choice and US housing policy, www.huduser.org
Description: The pupose of this paper is to look at the links between policies and outcomes.
HUD
Opening the doors to home ownership, www.huduser.org
Description: Article: examines factors contributing to recent gains in home ownership and economic status ..
HUD
Issues in evaluating neighborhood change, www.huduser.org
Description: Economic development and community building indicators.
HUD
Social experiments in housing, www.huduser.org
Description: This paper summarizes 8 evaluations undertaken by HUD of social programs.
HUD
Ideas matter: Reflections on new regionalism, www.huduser.org
Description: This article reviews recent arguments for regional cooperation, especially those that assert an interdependence between cities and suburbs.
HUD
Specialization versus diversity in local economies, www.huduser.org
Description: Urbanization is at least as relevant as localization in explaining spatial patterns of innovation and economic growth..
HUD
Community empowerment strategies, www.huduser.org
Description: Limits and potential of community organizing in urban neighborhoods.
HUD
Comprehensive neighborhood based initiatives, www.huduser.org
Description: A new generation of comprehensive community initiatives has been launched over the past decade to address the growing concentration, isolation, and persistence of poverty in urban America.
HUD
Effects of environmental hazards and regulation on urban redevelopment, www.huduser.org
Description: Report: provides insight on basic issues confronting brownfields.
HUD
Redeveloping brownfields:How states and localities use CDBG funds, www.huduser.org
Description: Report: how states are using CDBG to tackle brownfield redevelopment.
HUD
Assessment of availability and cost of financing for small multifamily properties, www.huduser.org
Description: Study: analyze cost and availability of funding for small multifamily properties, and barriers to financing .
HUD
Affordable Housing Design Advisor: a project workbook, www.huduser.org
Description: Valuable tool for use in designing affordable housing.
HUD
Creating a local advisory commission on regulartory barriers to affordable housing, www.huduser.org
Description: A guide to assist local officials to improve housing affordability in their community.
HUD
Smart codes in your community: A guide to building rehabilitation codes, www.huduser.org
Description: Broad overview of general regulatory environment governing the use of existing buildings..
Prevention Institute
The Built environment and health, www.preventioninstitute.org
Description: Explanation of project compililng program profiles of 7-10 case studies.
Prevention Institute
The Built environment and health - 11 profiles of neighborhood transformation, www.preventioninstitute.org
Description: 11 case studies where communities mobilized resources to transform physical enviornment..
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission
Preliminary transportation plan for the Delaware valley, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Comprehensive, long range blueprint for moving people and goods through the Delaware Valley.
DVRPC
Preliminary Land Use Plan: 21st century vision, www.dvrpc.org
Description: A vision of revitalization, renewal and recentralization.
DVRPC
Issues and choices: Planning the regions future, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Global and regional issues for the future ..
DVRPC
The Shape of Things to Come, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Key questions to provide a context for planning.
DVRPC
Transportation Conformity of the DVRPC FY2005 Transportation Improvement program , www.dvrpc.org
Description: Report documenting conformity of DVRPC transportation improvement program and long range transportation plan.
DVRPC
Horizons: 2025 year plan for Delaware valley, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Summary of 4 workshops presented to elicit public assessment regarding needs in DE valley ..
DVRPC
Regional Indicators: Measuring our progress to 2025, www.dvrpc.org
Description: Presenting 26 indicators which track the regioins progress toward the adopted goals.
DVRP