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Most important things re

Most important things re land:
(1) Tax land value---government and the community, not the landowner, create the value. This way things like mass transit can easily be funded. (Adding subway stations drastically increases land value---why should the landowners capture the windfall, not the government?)
(2) Less restrictive land use policy. (Just as an example, Atrios has had a number of short posts on city land use policies that discourage density.)

(1) and (2) are complementary. One reason---at least around here in the greater DC metro area---that denser land use is discouraged is "who will pay for infrastructure and schools?" If land were heavily taxed, that stuff would pay for itself.

Not bored

Since I know that some consider number of comments to a post as some kind of indicator of said post's popularity, consider this a vote for more posts on land use.

"When someone says "land use

"When someone says "land use policy," what do you think?"

I wish kevin blogged about this stuff more.

And then I find out it's about NRDC self-promotion concerning new post-Great Recession growth bureaucracy (sounds like a reasonable framework I guess, if we ever start needing commercial and residential development again) and some silliness about politicians dictating that scientists stick their heads in the sand concerning calculations for future legislation for CO2 emission reductions that won't ever be passed.

--For the former it's just hard to get excited about California development policy when it appears to look past current economic, structural, political, and fiscal realities. When push comes to shove, a planned bureaucracy isn't likely to have much impact (or permanence) compared to direct economic concerns and tax incentives. Actually I think it passed because it largely falls in line with what future development will look like anyway.

Personally I'd like to read about cities responding to the current situation (or not responding) in terms of transportation and development planning. What the heck are Tracy and Modesto going to do with 4 dollar gas and a crappy job market? What's happening to mass transit subsidies, coverage, and planning? What are the combined effects of prop 5 on job mobility, CO2 emissions, government funding? Seriously, the NRDC folks can clap for themselves, but economic realities (gas prices, job market, etc.) are going to define future growth and the biggest hurdle isn't the lack of a bureaucratic framework -- it's our inertia, lack of foresight, and structural hurdles to reorganizing the economy.

--The latter is actually pretty amusing if you consider the endless possibilities available for politicians to get involved in pure and applied research. Perhaps global warming activists could counter with proposal to require USGS geologists to ignore unconventional and deep petroleum plays in their world inventory estimates.

Land use policy and the environment

And once you venture into land use policy, you blunder into real world climate change...

http://climatesci.org/

Great Kevin, But neither

Great Kevin,

But neither you, nor Mike nor the NYT article actually lists the vote breakdown; so how are we supposed to DO anything with this information?

Geez, it isn't like blogging is Teh Toughest Job in the Universe. Add some value here.

another blogger pulled into

another blogger pulled into the land-use policy orbit! you're gonna have to start reading streetsblog soon.

and kevin, there's an important land-use angle that should be right in your wheelhouse. one of the key obstacles to promoting transit-oriented development in the suburbs is suburban parents, for whom apartments=urban=bad schools=bad for my kids & declining property values. there's no real evidence for that line of thought, but it kills projects at zoning board meetings across the country.

The secret plan....

"If we are willing to make stuff up and stifle the science with legislation like this, countries like India and China, and the Europeans, have no reason to get on board"

I thought that was the plan all along. If we (big fossil fuel interests), can scare off China, India, etc. into not acting, that can be our excuse for not acting.