The Contract Transformation in Land Use Regulation
By , February 8, 2012
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Land usage regulation has shifted from a hierarchical, permit-granting model towards a negotiation-centric model with a binding contract as its goal. The author discusses how the private, bilateral nature of contract negotiations represents a shift away from the values of the original regulatory scheme, and how these types of negotiations both comport with and deviate from the so called New Governance scheme, particularly in their lack of transparency and multi-party collaboration.
