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Third Promise of GMA Revisited: the New Urban Growth Area Guidebook

August 1, 2013  by  Pat Dugan
Category:  Planning Advisor ,  Comprehensive Planning-Growth Management

Too often, GMA Capital Facility Plans have been prepared as an afterthought, rather than as an integral part of the planning process. A particularly critical weakness of many Capital Facility Plans (CFP) has been the failure to demonstrate that designated Urban Growth Areas...

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Planners, Finance, Geography, and Urban Sprawl

July 31, 2012  by  Pat Dugan
Category:  Guest Author

By following my inclinations rather than my training, I have become both a planner and a finance officer. I came into these professions through the back door, without any significant formal training or education in either. My academic training, instead, focused at the graduate level on geography, with some specialization in economic geography. This background has given me a somewhat different...

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But What About Multiple Family Housing: Does it Pay for Itself?

March 1, 2012  by  Pat Dugan
Category:  Planning Advisor

There is a perception that multi-family housing is a drain on local government finances and is more costly to support than single-family residences. This, in turn, can affect local land use policies and cause officials to discourage multi-family development. But is this perception true?

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Shaping Growth: Using Capital Facilities to Implement Comprehensive Plans

March 1, 2012  by  Pat Dugan
Category:  Planning Advisor

This post explores the ways that capital facilities can be actively used to implement a comprehensive plan and the role that capital facility financing policies can play in that process by influencing when, where, and how much capital facilities will be developed.

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