When do local governments regulate land use to serve regional goals? Results of a survey tracking land use changes that support sustainable mobility : a research report from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation.

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• Creators:
  Sciara, Gian-Claudia ; Strand, Sarah
• Corporate Creators:
  University of California, Davis. Institute of Transportation Studies ; University of Texas at Austin
• Corporate Contributors:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; California. Department of Transportation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Local government
  • Land use
  • Sustainable development
  • Smart growth
  • Zoning
  • Surveys
  • Measurement
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;California
• Corporate Publisher:
  National Center for Sustainable Transportation (NCST) (UTC)
• Abstract:
  An unprecedented effort to improve regional coordination and land use governance has been ; underway in California since 2008, when the state passed the Sustainable Communities and ; Climate Protection Act (Senate Bill 375). The law complements earlier state policy (Assembly ; Bill 32) to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions across an array of sectors. SB 375 ; specifically encourages regional land use planning that, when coupled with supportive ; transportation investments, would help to reduce automobile dependent patterns of land use ; and sprawl. Implementation of these new regional land use visions and the GHG reductions ; they promise depend largely on local government land use and development actions. ; This report explores the responses of California cities and counties to this experiment in order ; to understand what may make local governments more or less likely to collaborate with ; regionally oriented policies. It reports on a survey of California local governments administered ; in early 2017 and explores two main questions: (1) to what extent are California local ; governments adopting local land use policy and development decisions that reflect the MPO’s ; regional land use vision, and (2) what factors make some local governments more likely to ; cooperate with regional land use visions, and what factors make others less likely to do so?
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  UCD Contract No. 65A0527, Task Order 025
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/32860/dot_32860_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.44 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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