Economic Consequences of Adopting Local Spatial Development Plans for the Spatial Management System: The Case of Poland

Przemysław Śleszyński, Maciej Nowak, Paweł Sudra, Magdalena Załęczna and Małgorzata Blaszke
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Przemysław Śleszyński: Department of Urban and Population Geography, Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-818 Warsaw, Poland
Maciej Nowak: Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland
Paweł Sudra: Department of Housing and Urban Renewal, Institute of Urban and Regional Development, 03-728 Warsaw, Poland
Magdalena Załęczna: Department of Investments and Real Estate, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz, 90-255 Lodz, Poland
Małgorzata Blaszke: Department of Real Estate, Faculty of Economics, West Pomeranian University of Technology, 70-310 Szczecin, Poland

Land, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-22

Abstract: The spatial management system in Poland struggles with serious costs as a consequence of local planning. The problem is the lack of appropriate value capturing mechanisms and cost compensation for municipalities, along with significant burdens. Private property is subject to special protection, but the public good is less valued. The article attempts to assess the situation in Poland, recalling also the experiences of spatial management systems from other European countries. It combines legal, economic, and geographical perspectives. The specific objectives were demonstration of geographical (interregional and functional) regularities related to the economic (financial) consequences of adopting local plans and identification of financial effects resulting from the implementation of local plans in communes, i.e., in particular, their size, structure of revenues (income), and expenditures, in relations with the budgets of municipalities and the population living in communes. First, the determinants of spatial policy were defined in the context of institutional economics and the real estate market. Then, a unique database of forecasted and realized budgetary revenues and expenditures of 2477 communes in Poland related to spatial development (infrastructure construction, land transformation, purchase, etc.) was analyzed statistically. Additionally, for five selected communes of different functional types, this issue was examined in detail. It has been shown that municipalities do not derive adequate income from spatial development, and improper policy of local self-governments results in heavy burdens, threatening to disturb their financial balance. The formulated conclusions regarding the legal, economic, and spatial mechanisms may contribute to building tools (instruments) for more effective spatial management in various countries.

Keywords: local development; local law; budgets of local units; financial consequences of spatial chaos (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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