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Growth Management Policies for Exurban and Suburban Development: Theory and an Application to Sonoma County, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

David A. Newburn  and
Peter Berck
David A. Newburn
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas
Peter Berck
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California in Berkeley, California
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Abstract

This study examines the effectiveness of growth management policies on influencing future patterns of exurban and suburban development. We initially estimate a spatially explicit model of residential development with parcel data in Sonoma County, California. This estimated model is then used to simulate the effect of urban growth boundaries (UGBs) versus allowing municipal sewer service expansion. The UGB policy decreases the amount of suburban development but is less effective in managing exurban development. The downzoning policy in agricultural and resource areas reduces the amount of exurban development, but only partially due to the prevalence of grandfathered lots in rural areas.

Keywords

exurban developmenturban growth boundariessprawlspatial modelingurban fringe
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , December 2011 , pp. 375 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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