Land taxation, development charges, and the effects on land-use

Needham, D.B.

doi:10.1080/09599910050120000

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“…The first one-densification-looks, in our region, to be convenient only in the case of building in free areas (e.g., after demolition, or after change of land use regulation, like in the cases of social housing [42] and Program Agreements [43]). It appears, more than the increase of volumes in elevation, that an increase of coverage of open spaces inside the built context, and sometimes worse, on the external urban fringe, occurs.…”

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confidence: 99%

Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

2017

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This paper experiments with some costs-benefit analyses, seeking a balance between soil-take and buildability due to land policy and management. The activities have been carried out inside the MITO lab (Lab for Multimedia Information for Territorial Objects) of the Polytechnic University of Bari. Reports have been produced about the Southern Italian Apulia Region, which is rich in farmland and coastline, often invaded by construction, with a severe loss of nature, a degradation of the soil, landscape, and ecosystem services. A methodological approach to the assessment of sustainability of urban expansion related, on one hand, to "plus values" deriving from the transformation of urban fringes and, on the other hand to the analysis of the transition of land-use, with the aim of "saving soil" against urban sprawl. The loss of natural and agricultural surfaces due to the expanding artificial lands is an unsustainable character of urban development, especially in the manner in which it was carried out in past decades. We try to assess how plus value can be considered "unearned", and to understand if the "land value recapture" can compensate for the negative environmental effects of urban expansion. We measured the transition from farmlands and natural habitat to urbanization with the support of the use of some Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, in favor of a new artificial land cover in the region of Apulia, Southern Italy. Data have been collected at the regional scale and at the local level, producing information about land use change and increases of property values due to improvements, referring to the 258 municipalities of the region. Looking at the results of our measurements, we started an interpretation of the driving forces that favor the plus values due to the transition of land-use. Compensation, easements, recapture of plus value, and improvement are, nowadays in Italy, discussed as major land-policy tools for managing environmental and landscape preservation. The interplay between urban economics and environmentally sound regulations reveals some controversial issues in urban governance and nature preservation: perhaps some abstract regulations, conjoined with non-case-oriented urban policies, consider these keywords as the old chemists considered the Philosopher's Stone. The analyses show criticality emerging themes in emblematic cases, studied in some municipal contexts.

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Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

2017

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“…In addition, its ability to mobilize revenue for local authorities has immense potential as a tool for land and urban development policies (Kapoor and Ghosh, 1992). It is imposed for the purpose of mobilizing revenue for government, public purposes, infrastructure, municipal services, or land use planning (Needham, 2000). It is therefore an important component of local government finances in many nations.…”

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Constraints on property rating in the Offinso South Municipality of Ghana

Boamah

2013

CJLG

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“…The second, to be considered below, is a corollary of two the aforementioned sources of government failure; namely inelasticities in supply (caused by the uncertainties exacerbated by public policy and/or by the direct constraints of land use planning) that diminish the impact of fiscal interventions (as argued by Needham, 2000). In the penultimate section of the paper I shall add a third potential source of state failure which arises out of the distortionary effects of fiscal intervention in the use of land on the capital market treatment of brownfield investment.…”

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Greening by the Market? Distortions Caused by Fiscal Incentives to Build on Brownfield Land

Pryce

2003

Housing Studies

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This is a theoretical paper which draws on the existing land-planning and state failure literatures to underpin its key assumptions and to provide an appropriate context. Its main purpose is to consider the connection between capital markets and brownfield development. The paper begins with a summary of the various explanations put forward for why the private sector appears reluctant to build on brownfield, and offers a previously overlooked possible cause: the impact of asymmetric information on credit markets for residential construction. The paper then moves on to its main focus by considering state failures in the allocation of land and the likely impact of information problems on the success of fiscal measures to encourage brownfield development. As a result, a new form of possible state failure in land use intervention is identified that arises out of the link between fiscal policy and the financial market treatment of brownfield sites. This insight adds to the broader category of research that considers state failures in general.

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Land taxation, development charges, and the effects on land-use

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

Saving Soil for Sustainable Land Use

Constraints on property rating in the Offinso South Municipality of Ghana

Greening by the Market? Distortions Caused by Fiscal Incentives to Build on Brownfield Land

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