Growth management policy and county government : correlates of policy adoption across the United States
By: Steel, Brent S
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Contributor(s): Lovrich, Nicholas P.
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ArticlePublisher: 2000State and Local Government Review 32, 1, p. 7-20Abstract: As American cities and towns grow, expansion into the surrounding countryside often results in the displacement of established land-use activities. In response to the pressures created by this type of growth, many local jurisdictions ad state governments have instituted variety of management policies intended to mitigate the adverse effects of growth. This article examines the pattern of adoption of growth management policies at the county government level and invesgates various hypothesized sociodemographic, economic, and political correlates of those policies. Findings from a 1995 survey of county planning directors suggest that growth management policies are most likely to be adopted in urbanized counties with favorable economic conditions, in the context of state-mandated growth management prescriptions
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As American cities and towns grow, expansion into the surrounding countryside often results in the displacement of established land-use activities. In response to the pressures created by this type of growth, many local jurisdictions ad state governments have instituted variety of management policies intended to mitigate the adverse effects of growth. This article examines the pattern of adoption of growth management policies at the county government level and invesgates various hypothesized sociodemographic, economic, and political correlates of those policies. Findings from a 1995 survey of county planning directors suggest that growth management policies are most likely to be adopted in urbanized counties with favorable economic conditions, in the context of state-mandated growth management prescriptions
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