TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamin,Elisabeth M.
AU  - Steere,Margaret Ounsworth
AU  - Sweetser,Wendy
TI  - Implementing growth management: the community preservation act
SN  - 0739456X
AV  - NA9000 JOU 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Thousand Oaks
PB  - ACSP
KW  - Growth management
KW  - Land use
KW  - Policy evaluation
N2  - State-led growth management has been criticized as inflexible in addressing the range of situations that communities face. A second issue is that while many of the goals of smart growth can be achieved through regulation, others require funding for implementation. In 2000, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts passed legislation called the Community Preservation Act (CPA), an experiment in enabling communities to tax themselves to implement growth management/smart growth actions at the local level. This article examines that act as to whether it demonstrates flexibility in its application across communities in the state, analyzed according to sub/urban to rural character. The act is found to appeal to a wide range of communities for overlapping but also divergent reasons and provides a flexible method to aid communities in implementing a limited set of smart growth goals
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X05285145
ER  -