Americans continue to vote for protecting land, even when it means taxing themselves to do it - though they prefer to finance land conservation with bond issues. Between 1998 and 2006, some 1,550 referenda appeared on state, county, and municipal ballots across the United States, and 80 percent of these measures passed, many by a wide margin, according to an article by H. Spencer Banzhaf, Wallace E. Oates, and James Sanchirico in the April issue of Land Lines.
The issue also includes an article on the land value impact of bus rapid transit, and details on the Lincoln Institute's six new books - a new record! -- coming out this spring: Making the Property Tax Work; Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies; Global Universities and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis; Toward a Vision of Land in 2015: International Perspectives; European Spatial Research and Planning; and Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans.