Regulated Landscape, The (Book)

Lessons on State Land Use Planning from Oregon

Author(s): Knaap, Gerrit and Arthur C. Nelson
Publication Date: October 1992

$20.00; 243 pages; Inventory ID 120-4; English; Paperback; ISBN 1-55844-120-4

Abstract

What can policy makers and citizens in other states learn from Oregon’s innovative land use planning? A great deal. This book examines the effects of Oregon’s comprehensive Land Use Act of 1973 on economic activity, housing, agriculture and land values. Urban growth boundaries, public services planning and farmland protection also are analyzed. The authors document statewide planning and land use politics through the late 1980s as the state responded to changing social and economic circumstances that affected the implementation of its planning goals.