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A Local Government Perspective on Land Use Planning

2000
Rapid growth in coastal North Carolina poses tremendous challenges for local governments. Even though we are growing quickly we are still in general small, rural and often economically disadvantaged communities. As people move to the coast to enjoy a lifestyle that often includes golf and water access, they are migrating to communities that have ...
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Scottish Enterprise: A challenge to local land use planning?

Town Planning Review, 1992
In April 1991 Scottish Enterprise was set up from the merger of the Scottish Development Agency and the Training Agency in Scotland. The new system will deliver a range of economic development and training services through a network of private sector-led local enterprise companies. They will have a major impact upon land use planning.
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Urban Policy, Local Administration and Land Use Planning in Lille

European Urban and Regional Studies, 1996
Urban policy initiatives are a characteristic of most European countries. These initiatives have developed within the context of existing legislative frameworks, particularly relating to public administration and land use. The Contrat de Ville, recently introduced as a mechanism for urban policy coordination and im plementation, has developed within an
Howard Green, Philip Booth
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Local government rural land use planning in B.C.

2010
The objectives of this study are threefold: 1. to provide an understanding of the need for rural land use planning; 2. to describe and compare British Columbia's, Alberta's, Ontario's and Saskatchewan's current system for rural land use planning; and 3.
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A Survey of the Use of Natural Heritage Date in Local Land‐Use Planning

Conservation Biology, 1996
With nearly 50% of federally threatened or endangered species in the United States occurring only on private lands (McKinney et al. 1993; Natural Heritage Data Center Network 1993), biodiversity conservation strategies cannot ignore private land management. Because most private land is under the jurisdiction primarily of local government (Kusler 1980),
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Reducing Flood Losses Local Planning and Land Use Controls

Journal of the American Planning Association, 1993
Abstract The National Flood Insurance Program emphasizes building elevation requirements to protect property from flood damage and to limit continued increases in national flood losses. Economists believe that the cost to elevate buildings will shift some development to flood-free locations.
James M. Holway, Raymond J. Burby
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Leadership roles in local land-use planning for noise control

Town Planning Review, 2019
Planning is tasked with an increasingly difficult dilemma of working with irreducible uncertainties between controlling, influencing and communicating.
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Local plans in British land use planning

Land Use Policy, 1984
David Green, Castle Morris
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Local Land Use Plans and the Implementation of New Urban Development

European Planning Studies, 2001
This article, based on case studies of plan 'construction' in the 1980s for large scale residential development near Bristol, England and in Poitiers, France, argues that the form and content of these local land use plans were the product of the coordinative planning strategy adopted.
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Local plans in British land use planning

Urban Ecology, 1985
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