The Goals and Strategies of Local Boundary Changes: Government Organization or Private Gain?

Fleischmann, Arnold

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9906.1986.tb00155.x

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“…Where fringe areas urbanize and become more like municipal areas in service provision, owners have less of a need to be part of a municipality (Fleischmann 1986a). Their willingness to supply land is therefore reduced, and they will have less reason to support any annexation initiative.…”

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Institutions and the Market for Annexable Land

McGregor

1996

Growth and Change

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The annexation activity of municipalities is studied in a market framework. A sample of 659 municipalities of 25,000 or more population is used to analyze the effects of municipal government structure and annexation statutes on municipal government behavior. Both annexation laws and types of municipal governments are found to be significant determinants of the level of municipal annexation activity. Since some studies indicate that annexation activity affects municipal efficiency, these results have policy implications for state legislators who control the institutions under which municipalities operate. HEN DOUGLASS c. NORTH RECEIVED THE ALFRED NOBEL MEMORIAL Prize W in Economics in 1993, he lectured on the importance of political and economic institutions in economic performance (North 1993). Institutions provide the rules within which organizations function, including municipal government organizations. Unfortunately, few studies have been made which identify the impact of state and local institutions on municipal government behavior. None has been made in a framework that accounts for market forces that might influence annexation activity.The major function of municipal governments is to provide services, and their ability to provide services depends on the economic base, institutions, and political and social forces. The economic base of a municipality is a function of many factors, including the ability of a municipality to expand its boundaries (usually through annexation of fringe areas) to recapture higher income residents and businesses who have left the municipality and to capture new urban fringe residents who have migrated from other areas Annexation is an important issue for municipal governments because the relative ease by which a municipality can annex influences its ability to protect its economic base.' Moreover, the objectives and behavior of municipal governments are related to the phenomenon of urban sprawl and suburban development Gaines Liner is an associate professsor, and Rob Roy

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Institutions and the Market for Annexable Land

McGregor

1996

Growth and Change

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“…Urban advocates often promote liberal state annexation policy to encourage greater rates of annexation. They argue that the relative ease by which a locality can annex affects its ability to preserve and enhance its economic base (Bollens, 1949;Cho, 1969;Cotrell and Stevens, 1979;Fleischmann, 1986;Gabler, 1971;MacManus and Thomas, 1979;Muller and Dawson, 1976;Smith et al, 1979) and its ability to grow in an orderly and efficient manner (Reynolds, 1992). Others tout the general fiscal benefits of annexation.…”

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Municipal annexation: Does state policy matter?

Edwards

2011

Land Use Policy

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“…In the case of Valley VOTE, the group's dual leadership structure and relative balance between homeowner and business interests on the group's 35-member executive board help ensure that neither interest will dominate. Third, as Fleischmann (1986) and others have noted, such coalitions may be more likely in developed suburban areas experiencing rapid development or otherwise facing land-use threats. Fourth, the fact that Valley business owners are invariably Valley homeowners-although not usually involved in HOA politics-nonetheless increases the likelihood that these interests will share a degree of consensus on what their community should look like.…”

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Urban Secession and the Politics of Growth

Hogen-Esch

2001

Urban Affairs Review

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The author argues that the current movement to secede San Fernando Valley from the city of Los Angeles exposes significant weaknesses in the existing literature on urban fragmentation. By constructing a theoretical framework, the author explains the effort as primarily a conflict between interest groups over the power to control urban growth. Second, existing scholarship cannot explain why progrowth Valley business organizations and slow-growth Valley homeowner associations have aligned to form a potent, though seemingly unlikely, urban coalition. The author concludes that these traditional land-use foes share far more common ground on growth issues than conventional theories predict. In particular, both share elements of a suburban land-use vision that provides a substantive foundation for collective action.

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The Goals and Strategies of Local Boundary Changes: Government Organization or Private Gain?

Cited by 39 publications

References 19 publications

Institutions and the Market for Annexable Land

Institutions and the Market for Annexable Land

Municipal annexation: Does state policy matter?

Urban Secession and the Politics of Growth

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