Covenants and Zoning
Author : Douglas R. Porter
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780874206487
Author : Douglas R. Porter
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780874206487
Author : Carolyn A. Dehring
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN :
Residential land use in urban areas can be constrained by zoning or restrictive covenants. When covenants and zoning exist simultaneously, covenants can facilitate an efficient allocation of high restriction and low restriction residential land. However, covenants cannot remedy deadweight loss resulting from zoning that over allocates land to high restriction use. We examine subdivided, vacant residential lot sales from two residential zones which differ in both minimum lot size and the minimum square feet of house. Our findings of a negative price effect from covenant use in the more restricted zone suggest that developers over-supply private restrictions.
Author : Bernard H. Siegan
Publisher : Mercatus Center at George Maso
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781538148624
The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding in the process from a public policy backwater to one of the most discussed policy issues of the day. In his pioneering 1972 study, Land Use Without Zoning, Bernard Siegan first set out what has today emerged as a common-sense perspective: Zoning not only fails to achieve its stated ends of ordering urban growth and separating incompatible uses, but also drives housing costs up and competition down. In no uncertain terms, Siegan concludes, "Zoning has been a failure and should be eliminated!" Drawing on the unique example of Houston--America's fourth largest city, and its lone dissenter on zoning--Siegan demonstrates how land use will naturally regulate itself in a nonzoned environment. For the most part, Siegan says, markets in Houston manage growth and separate incompatible uses not from the top down, like most zoning regimes, but from the bottom up. This approach yields a result that sets Houston apart from zoned cities: its greater availability of multifamily housing. Indeed, it would seem that the main contribution of zoning is to limit housing production while adding an element of permit chaos to the process. Land Use Without Zoning reports in detail the effects of current exclusionary zoning practices and outlines the benefits that would accrue to cities that forgo municipally imposed zoning laws. Yet the book's program isn't merely destructive: beyond a critique of zoning, Siegan sets out a bold new vision for how land-use regulation might work in the United States. Released nearly a half century after the book's initial publication, this new edition recontextualizes Siegan's work for our current housing affordability challenges. It includes a new preface by law professor David Schleicher, which explains the book's role as a foundational text in the law and economics of urban land use and describes how it has informed more recent scholarship. Additionally, it includes a new afterword by urban planner Nolan Gray, which includes new data on Houston's evolution and land use relative to its peer cities.
Author : Helen Corbin Monchow
Publisher :
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1928
Category : City planning
ISBN :
Author : Emmett Clinton Yokley
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Zoning law
ISBN :
Revised volumes by Douglas Scott MacGregor, 2000-
Author : David W. Owens
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Robert C. Ellickson
Publisher :
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Zoning law
ISBN :
Author : Michael Allan Wolf
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN :
Revisits the landmark case Euclid v. Ambler, in which the Supreme Court surprisingly upheld the constitutionality of local zoning laws protecting residential neighborhoods from real and perceived disturbances, a decision that forever changed the way American cities and their suburbs were organized.
Author : Seward H. Mott
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Covenants
ISBN :
Author : Bernard H. Siegan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,94 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1538148641
The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding in the process from a public policy backwater to one of the most discussed policy issues of the day. In his pioneering 1972 study, Land Use Without Zoning, Bernard Siegan first set out what has today emerged as a common-sense perspective: Zoning not only fails to achieve its stated ends of ordering urban growth and separating incompatible uses, but also drives housing costs up and competition down. In no uncertain terms, Siegan concludes, “Zoning has been a failure and should be eliminated!” Drawing on the unique example of Houston—America’s fourth largest city, and its lone dissenter on zoning—Siegan demonstrates how land use will naturally regulate itself in a nonzoned environment. For the most part, Siegan says, markets in Houston manage growth and separate incompatible uses not from the top down, like most zoning regimes, but from the bottom up. This approach yields a result that sets Houston apart from zoned cities: its greater availability of multifamily housing. Indeed, it would seem that the main contribution of zoning is to limit housing production while adding an element of permit chaos to the process. Land Use Without Zoning reports in detail the effects of current exclusionary zoning practices and outlines the benefits that would accrue to cities that forgo municipally imposed zoning laws. Yet the book’s program isn’t merely destructive: beyond a critique of zoning, Siegan sets out a bold new vision for how land-use regulation might work in the United States. Released nearly a half century after the book’s initial publication, this new edition recontextualizes Siegan’s work for our current housing affordability challenges. It includes a new preface by law professor David Schleicher, which explains the book’s role as a foundational text in the law and economics of urban land use and describes how it has informed more recent scholarship. Additionally, it includes a new afterword by urban planner Nolan Gray, which includes new data on Houston’s evolution and land use relative to its peer cities.