Understanding Community Benefit Agreements: Opportunities and Traps for Developers, Municipalities and Community Organizations

Salkin, Patricia E.

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“…The negotiation of developer amenities through the public review process has long been criticized by good government groups and community planners for its corrupting effect on city government and the public review process itself (ABCNY 1988;Salkin 2007;Angotti 2009). From a working-class perspective, there is a more troubling dilemma at issue.…”

Section: Land Use Regulation and Real Estate-led Accumulationmentioning

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Bargaining for Rights in Luxury City: The Strategic Dilemmas of Organized Labor’s Urban Turn

MacDonald

2011

Labor Studies Journal

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A number of service-sector unions in the United States have turned to urban land-use strategies in alliance with community organizations to achieve organizing goals and sustain bargaining regimes in a hostile environment. These union strategies typically entail the formation of project-specific "common cause" coalitions with community organizations in order to leverage local benefits, living wages, and union rights from private developers and growth-oriented local governments. The labor studies literature on community unionism understands these strategies through the analytical frame of social movement theory, and closely associates them with labor movement renewal. In approaching the question from the perspective of critical human geography, this article highlights a contradiction that emerges in labor's land-use campaigns in cases where redevelopment entails the transformation of working-class neighborhoods into spaces of production and luxury consumption. The article argues that a strategy of negotiating distributional shares out of prospective increases in land values in such cases encourages union-community coalitions to prioritize workplace over residential demands, in turn reproducing structural divisions between labor and community. The argument is sustained through a discussion of the involvement of the New York City hotel workers union, UNITE-HERE Local 6, in a labor-community coalition formed to contest the terms of the redevelopment of Coney Island. The case study casts some doubt on whether labor-community land use strategies of this type are consistent with labor movement renewal.

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Section: Land Use Regulation and Real Estate-led Accumulationmentioning

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Bargaining for Rights in Luxury City: The Strategic Dilemmas of Organized Labor’s Urban Turn

MacDonald

2011

Labor Studies Journal

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“…With increasing frequency, citizens are involved in negotiations over development projects. Social groups (or communities) sometimes even close contracts with developers; securing particular benefits on condition that they support a given urban development project (UDP), rather than legally opposing it (Gross et al, 2005;Salkin, 2007). These agreements between (groups of) citizens and market parties (civil-market agreements) can be regarded as facilitators of a wider trend in which UDPs are judged not only by physical impact criteria but also by the (job) opportunities and facilities that they bring to a neighborhood (Camacho, 2013;Marcello, 2007).…”

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Contracting communities: Conceptualizing Community Benefits Agreements to improve citizen involvement in urban development projects

Janssen-Jansen

Veen

2016

Environ Plan A

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Contractual agreements are becoming increasingly important for city governments seeking to manage urban development. Contractual governance involves direct relations between the local state and different public and private actors and citizens. Although abundant literature exists on public–private partnerships related to urban development projects, agreements made between citizens, interest organizations and market parties, such as Community Benefits Agreements remain under-explored and under-theorized. While it may seem that the state is absent from contemporary forms of contractual governance, such agreements remain highly intertwined with government policies. The central aim of this paper is to better conceptualize Community Benefits Agreement practices in order to build understanding of how contractual governance caters for direct end-user involvement in urban development, and to yield insights into its potential as to render development processes more inclusive. Based on academic literature in planning and law, expert interviews and several case studies in New York City, this paper conceptualizes end-user involvement in urban development projects and innovates within urban planning and governance theory through the use of two new concepts—project collectivity and the image of a fourth chair.

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Natural Resource Ownership, Financial Gains, and Governance: The Case of Unconventional Gas Development in the UK and the US

Harleman

Weber

2017

SSRN Journal

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Understanding Community Benefit Agreements: Opportunities and Traps for Developers, Municipalities and Community Organizations

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Bargaining for Rights in Luxury City: The Strategic Dilemmas of Organized Labor’s Urban Turn

Bargaining for Rights in Luxury City: The Strategic Dilemmas of Organized Labor’s Urban Turn

Contracting communities: Conceptualizing Community Benefits Agreements to improve citizen involvement in urban development projects

Natural Resource Ownership, Financial Gains, and Governance: The Case of Unconventional Gas Development in the UK and the US

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