Land-use agreements when the developer is not sure of infrastructure costs

Leon Taylor
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Leon Taylor: Dillard University

Public Economics from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Planners wish to avoid a lawsuit by the developer over their cost estimates of the public works required by his project. To avoid a suit, they can offer him his choice of several sets of conditions that would attach to land-use permits. In computer simulations of five such short- and long-term contracts, the developer chooses a ``development agreement" -- characterized here as a long-term contract in which the developer pays an impact fee and obtains a freeze on taxes and regulations -- in more than 97\% of the cases.

Keywords: land; use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-10-15, Revised 2003-04-19
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