PPPM
410/510 |
Land Use/Growth
Management:
Growth Management Techniques -Lecture Notes
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Growth
Management Approaches and Techniques
Growth management
approaches and techniques can be broadly
classified into the following categories:
- Techniques
for managing the location and character
of community expansion
- Techniques to
preserve natural resources and
environmental qualities and features
- Techniques to
ensure efficient provision of community
infrastructure
- Techniques to
maintain or create a desirable quality of
community life
- Techniques to
improve economic opportunities and social
equity
- Techniques
for regional and sate guidance of
community development
Where to Grow:
Techniques for managing the location and
character of community expansion
- Urban growth
boundaries
- Development
policy areas
- Promotion of
infill and redevelopment
- Extra-jurisdictional
controls
- Limits on
growth
Where not to
grow: Techniques to preserve
natural resources and environmental qualities and
features
- Land
acquisition
- Conservation
planning/zoning
- Water
quality/erosion control regulations
- Delineation
of critical areas
- Mitigation of
development impacts
- Agricultural
land protection
- Watershed
planning and management
- Environmental
threshold standards
Ensuring
adequate public facilities: Techniques to ensure
efficient provision of community infrastructure
- Capital
improvement programs
- Functional
plans
- Adequate
public facility requirements
- Exactions,
impact fees, and special districts
- Transportation
demand management and congestion
management programs
- Project point
or rating systems
Maintaining
community livability: Techniques to maintain or
create a desirable quality of community life
- Design/site
review
- Flexible
planning and design
- Incentive and
performance zoning
- Historic and
architectural preservation
- Neighborhood
conservation and revitalization of
declining areas
- Landscape
ordinances
- Tree or plant
conservation requirements
Economic and
Social Sustainability: Techniques to improve
economic opportunities and social equity
- Economic
development incentives
- Economic
opportunity programs
- Affordable
housing programs
The regional
perspective: Techniques for regional and state
guidance of community development
- Coordination
of local planning
- Reviews of
developments of regional impact
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