Subdivision Regulations: Practices & Attitudes (Working Paper)

A Survey of Public Officials and Developers in the Nation's Fastest Growing Single Family Housing Markets

Author(s): Ben-Joseph, Eran
Publication Date: August 2003

68 pages; Inventory ID WP03EB1; English


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Abstract

This study gauges the impacts of subdivision regulations on the design of residential developments and the practices of developers in rapidly growing regions of the country. Through a nationwide survey of jurisdictions which are experiencing rapid development growth and developers who are working in these areas, the study assesses the attitudes and perceptions and identifies the issues within subdivision regulations that members of the housing industry and the regulatory agencies feel are affecting housing development. The study also partially replicates similar research done in 1976 to gain an understanding of changing practices within the last 25 years.

Parts of the study have been published in a refereed journal and a book:

Ben-Joseph, Eran. 2004. Double Standards, Single Goal: Private Communities and
Design Innovation. Journal of Urban Design. 9(2): 131-151 (June).

Ben-Joseph, Eran. 2004. Facing Subdivision Regulations. In Eran
Ben-Joseph and Terry S. Szold, eds. Regulating Place:
Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. New York: Routledge.