Research Projects

Reshaping Development Patterns

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Researchers
Susan Culp, Jim Holway, and Mia Stier

Description
JOINT VENTURE partnerships
Sonoran Institute, Phoenix, Arizona

The partnership will convene leading thinkers from both
metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions to identify key
land ownership and entitlement constraints on pursuing
smart growth in the Intermountain West. Building on
these results, the joint venture will develop a research and
policy agenda for future work efforts driven by desired
outcomes. Concurrently, the partnership will initiate preliminary
research drawing on this “think tank” expertise to
conceptualize and prepare a white paper on platted lands
in the western states. We will research the large number
of entitled parcels in the West and options for reshaping
development by retiring some of these entitlements when
they are in areas inappropriate for development. Pinal
County, Arizona and Teton County, Wyoming are the
two cases for this research.