Thursday, October 28, 2004
Possible city could be model of urban growth
Two years ago, Metro, Portland's regional government decided Damascus should become a high density city. They did not put it to a vote of the rural property owners. This is a low density area with small farms and dotted with lots that are 1 to 5 acres.
This is a model how to force a area to do something that they had never planned to do.
Two years ago, Metro, Portland's regional government decided Damascus should become a high density city. They did not put it to a vote of the rural property owners. This is a low density area with small farms and dotted with lots that are 1 to 5 acres.
This is a model how to force a area to do something that they had never planned to do.
Experts debate land use measure
Oregonians no longer have local control of how their property is zoned.
It is decided by the cities and counties with the property owners sitting on the outside of the process. Oregon passed land use rules 30 years ago that morphed into allowing government to take value from property owners without compensation.
These landmark land use rules forced density into neighborhoods that do not what it and developed farms in the urban growth boundary even if they are on prime farmland.We save farms outside of the urban growth boundaries, even if the soil is poor.
Land use planning is upside down in Oregon
It is decided by the cities and counties with the property owners sitting on the outside of the process. Oregon passed land use rules 30 years ago that morphed into allowing government to take value from property owners without compensation.
These landmark land use rules forced density into neighborhoods that do not what it and developed farms in the urban growth boundary even if they are on prime farmland.We save farms outside of the urban growth boundaries, even if the soil is poor.
Land use planning is upside down in Oregon
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Growth Paying it's Way
Recently, two UNC Charlotte professors conducted an exhaustive study on the economic impact of growth, specifically residential. The results of all of the studies are available online at www.rebic.com.
In this article Charlotte Observer article the author discusses the results of those studies.
Opinion
Thu, Oct. 14, 2004
Why does growth no longer pay for itself?
The change hasn't been in the money generated but in how it is spent
MICK MULVANEY
Special to The Observer
"For more than 200 years in this country, growth "paid" for itself.
.....What could have changed, in just the last five or 10 years, to so dramatically alter centuries worth of fundamental economics?"
In this article Charlotte Observer article the author discusses the results of those studies.
Opinion
Thu, Oct. 14, 2004
Why does growth no longer pay for itself?
The change hasn't been in the money generated but in how it is spent
MICK MULVANEY
Special to The Observer
"For more than 200 years in this country, growth "paid" for itself.
.....What could have changed, in just the last five or 10 years, to so dramatically alter centuries worth of fundamental economics?"
