{"id":1334,"date":"2013-07-16T22:16:35","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2013-07-16T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:16:58","slug":"the-missing-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/the-missing-metric","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Metric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen pushback against government regulation at all levels; it makes sense to consider a new \u201cbalance-sheet\u201d approach to granting development approvals. Such an approach would screen for more compact, high-value development that pay back government\u2019s up-front infrastructure investments on a more rapid basis.<!--more--> By incorporating the \u201cmissing metric\u201d into development review, municipalities may be able to reduce and even eliminate many cumbersome and highly subjective development regulations, and at the same time make it easier to achieve more amenable, resource efficient and fiscally stable communities.<\/p>\n<p>The articles listed below provide an overview of this approach.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Planning%20Advice%20Fed%20Long%20Nov%202012.pdf\"><strong>What the Country Needs Now, Mr. President \u2013 Apply Some Tough Love<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPeter Katz, Planning, Nov. 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Bacon%27s%20Rebellion%20Fiscal%20Fix.pdf\"><strong>The Fiscal Fix<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJames Bacon, Bacon\u2019s Rebellion- Reinventing Virginia for the 21st Century, June 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Economic%20Benefits%20Sustainable%20Cities.pdf\"><strong>Live from CNU20: The Economic Benefits of Good Urbanism<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHenry Spethmann, SustainableCitiesCollective, May 11, 2012.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Realtors%20OCG%20Fiscal.pdf\"><strong>A Prescription for Fiscal Fitness? Smart Growth and the Municipal Bottom Line<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDavid Goldberg, Realtors &amp; Smart Growth \u2013 On Common Ground, Summer 2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/USATODAYSunburntcities.pdf\"><strong>Sunburnt cities have a shot to remake themselves<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nHaya El Nasser, USA Today, March 2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Cities%20Discover.pdf\"><strong>Cities Discover Economic Benefits of Sustainable Planning, Land Use<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nAndrew Shashaty, Sustainable Communities, January\/February 2011.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Planning%20Spreads.pdf\"><strong>Sarasota\u2019s Smart Growth Dividend<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nPeter Katz, Planning, December 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/NUN%20Final.pdf\"><strong>Best bet for tax revenue: mixed-use downtown development<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nNew Urban News, September 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Reuters%20Mixed%20Use.pdf\"><strong>Mixed-Use Downtown Development Creates the Most Tax Revenue <\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nZachary Shahan, Reuters, August 2, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Cooltown%20Studios%20fiscal.pdf\"><strong>City leaders, looking for revenue? Go urban!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nNeil Takemoto, cooltownstudios, July 28, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/WSJ%20Big%20Box%20Stores.pdf\"><strong>Big Box Stores Don\u2019t Produce Big Tax Gains<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nThe Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2010.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/docs\/freepub\/community_design\/peterkatz\/Tax%20revenue.pdf\"><strong>Tax revenue from downtown mixed-use outperforms big-box superstores and malls<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nKaid Benfield, Switchboard, July 14, 2010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen pushback against government regulation at all levels; it makes sense to consider a new \u201cbalance-sheet\u201d approach to granting development&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[30,29],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource","tag-articles","tag-community-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1337,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions\/1337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mirror.lgc.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}