Project Summary
This project will synthesize two sets of studies concerning the causes and consequences of local growth control focusing on implications for transportation and the unique context of each study. The first set of studies addresses the determinants of local growth controls and the circumstances under which a locality is likely to adopt relatively restrictive land use regulations. This body of work includes municipality-level analyses of the determinants of growth control and investigations of voting patterns on growth control measures and relevant issues. The second body of research to be reviewed is related to how limited housing supply (due to growth control and/or other regulatory barriers) affects household residential location and travel patterns. This body of work covers empirical research on the impact of inelastic housing supply on population distribution and resultant transportation outcomes as well as studies on broader transportation challenges that arise due to regulatory barriers to housing development and forces behind them.
