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Urban Land‐Use Regulation: Are Homevoters Overtaking the Growth Machine?

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  • Vicki Been
  • Josiah Madar
  • Simon McDonnell

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The leading theory about urban land‐use regulation argues that city zoning officials are full partners in the business and real estate elite's “growth machine.” Suburban land‐use officials, in contrast, are thought to cater to the interests of the majority of their electorate—“homevoters.” A unique database regarding over 200,000 lots that the New York City Planning Commission considered for rezoning between 2002 and 2009 allows us to test various hypotheses suggested by these competing theories of land‐use regulation. Our analysis reveals that homevoters are more powerful in urban politics than scholars, policymakers, and judges have assumed.

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  • Vicki Been & Josiah Madar & Simon McDonnell, 2014. "Urban Land‐Use Regulation: Are Homevoters Overtaking the Growth Machine?," Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 11(2), pages 227-265, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:empleg:v:11:y:2014:i:2:p:227-265
    DOI: 10.1111/jels.12040
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    1. Dublin-Boc, Jenna L., 2023. "Zoning for character: Contextual rezoning and socioeconomic change in New York City neighborhoods, 1986–2019," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).
    2. Antoine Grandclement & Guilhem Boulay, 2021. "From the uneven de-diversification of local financial resources to planning policies: The residentialization hypothesis," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(6), pages 1454-1472, September.
    3. Gabbe, C.J. & Kevane, Michael & Sundstrom, William A., 2021. "The effects of an “urban village” planning and zoning strategy in San Jose, California," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).

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