State Growth Management Programs and Central-City Revitalization

Growth Management and Sustainable Transport: Do Growth Management Policies Promote Transit Use?

“…Although growth-management initiatives are sometimes seen as state-level policy levers, the specific programs are typically implemented and operated by units of local government. The successful implementation of state policy at the local level requires a) vertical consistency between state-level objectives and strategies and local-level programs, b) horizontal consistency among local governments, and c) internal consistency among each unit's growth management and other investment or regulatory actions (Gale 1992, Knaap et al 2007, Weitz 1999, Carruthers 2002, Dawkins et al 2003. These consistency requirements are critical for local government participation, and they are designed to guarantee well-integrated and well-implemented local policy actions.…”

“…Dawkins and Nelson have identified eight states they believe meet the criteria-Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington (Dawkins et al 2003). Porter includes Georgia (Porter 1996), and Anthony expands the list to include California and Hawaii (Anthony 2004).…”

“…The presence of state-level growth-management policies that include consistency requirements are typically used to distinguish growth-management areas from non-growth management areas (see, for example, Carruthers 2002 andDawkins et al 2003), although there is disagreement on which states this encompasses (Weitz 1999, Dawkins et al 2003). Dawkins and Nelson have identified eight states they believe meet the criteria-Florida, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington (Dawkins et al 2003).…”

“…Porter includes Georgia (Porter 1996), and Anthony expands the list to include California and Hawaii (Anthony 2004). In this work, we used the eight states identified by Dawkins and Nelson (Dawkins et al 2003), mainly because consistency requirements were included directly in the identification process. Table 1 lists the eight growthmanagement states used in this study.…”

Parsing density changes: an outcome-oriented growth management policy analysis

“…The Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook (Meck, 2002) Although the growth management vs. non-growth management dichotomy is not ideal, this approach is well described and used in the literature for quantitative studies assessing policy outcomes (Carruthers, 2002b;Dawkins and Nelson, 2003;Anthony, 2004 Our regression analysis framework (Figure 2) is designed to measure the effects of statelevel initiatives that take place in combination with local land use regulations by controlling for other factors. More specifically, we employ a log-linear formulation: Index (WRLURI) (Gyourko et al, 2008).…”