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'What Big Teeth You Have!': Identifying the Motivations for Exclusionary Zoning

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  • William T. Bogart

    (Department of Economics and The Center for Regional Economic Issues, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7206, USA)

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This paper considers whether a number of the motivations for exclusionary zoning usually examined by economists are distinguishable from one another in a general theoretical model. The four motivations identified are: fiscal zoning, public goods zoning, consumption zoning and political economic zoning. It is demonstrated in a general setting that the motivations are observationally equivalent if the only available information is community composition. The most important implication of this finding is that a policy directed at alleviating one motive for zoning inevitably affects other motives. The existence of exclusionary zoning does not constitute a prima facie case for any particular intervention. Rather, the true motivations behind the observed pattern of land use and land-use controls must be identified.

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  • William T. Bogart, 1993. "'What Big Teeth You Have!': Identifying the Motivations for Exclusionary Zoning," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 30(10), pages 1669-1681, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:30:y:1993:i:10:p:1669-1681
    DOI: 10.1080/00420989320081651
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