Failure and opportunities of public value capture and developer obligations in Polish urban development

Gielen Demetrio Muñoz (), Ossowicz Tomasz () and Zaborowski Tomasz Piotr ()
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Gielen Demetrio Muñoz: Radboud Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ossowicz Tomasz: Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
Zaborowski Tomasz Piotr: Faculty of Geograohy and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development, 2022, vol. 26, issue 1, 15-30

Abstract: As many countries pursue private financing for urban public infrastructure, the tools for public value capture (PVC) gain prominence. This paper analyses Polish PVC tools in general, and spotlights a specific type: developer obligations (DOs). The authors conclude that the tools are ineffective for a series of reasons: negligence in the elaboration of pragmatic rationales (to mitigate the negative impacts of urban development), a lack of feasible (affordable) coercive land policy tools, and legislation (which puts Poland in sharp contrast to other countries) that prohibits municipalities from requiring DOs in exchange for approval of a land-use plan or planning permit, as well as the general ban on securing such obligations in a planning agreement (except for specific situations introduced by recent laws that have not yet been applied). As a consequence, new urban development in Poland neither includes sufficient urban public infrastructure, nor does it provide for social/affordable housing.

Keywords: Public value capture; urban development; Poland; urban public infrastructure; affordable housing; developer obligations; land readjustment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0071

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