Continuing the Open‐Space Preservation Dialogue: A Response to Howell‐Moroney^*

Is Open-Space Preservation a Form of Exclusionary Zoning?

“…We turn now from the more general literature on municipal environmental and land policies to the more specific recent research on open-space preservation. Recent research has focused both on explaining open-space financing votes (Howell-Moroney 2004a, 2004bKotchen and Powers 2006;Romero and Liserio 2002;Romero 2004;Solecki, Mason, and Martin 2004) and the actual open-space acquisition practices of local governments (Bates and Santerre 2001). At a national level, Kotchen and Powers (2006) examined all voter referenda for open-space funding in the United States from 1998 to 2003, while Romero and Liserio (2002) studied open-space ballot measures in 1998 and 1999.…”

“…Within the research literature, a series of recent efforts have attempted to explain evolving demand for local government land-acquisition efforts and open-space ballot measures but without consensus as to the causes and consequences (Bates and Santerre 2001;Howell-Moroney 2004a, 2004bO'Driscoll 2006;Romero and Liserio 2002;Romero 2004;Solecki, Mason, and Martin 2004). This literature on open-space preservation policies has tended to analyze open-space preservation policy decisions as distinct policy arenas, separate from the context of other local government land-use planning and regulatory strategies.…”