END 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Planning Policy Statements, Urban Growth Boundary, Hinsdale, Illinois
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Impact fees in hinsdale, il in 1947: /new residential sewer line to expand a water treatment plant. Became widely ace[ted in the us in the 1950"s and 1960"s. In the 1980"s, universally used to finance municipal facilities (fire, police, libraries) Criticism: discouraged local economy (harsher on poorer areas, increase the price of housing, balloon effects (rational choice would be to live in oregon but do your shopping in. Washington) taxes effect surrounding states, neighboring areas and other burdens. Policy entrepreneurs some cities tear down old, vacant homes. m to fix or demolish these houses in 2014 detroit: changing abandoned house property to something useful and worth cost of destruction (ex: to urban farming) New creative ideas into public practice needed. The city sells run-down homes for rather than demolishing them: better in the long run because cost of repair would be less than cost of destroying and fills in gaps in plan.