The Structure of Land Use Administration: A Research Agenda

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Article

Publication Date

2023

Abstract

Land use law is administrative law: land use regulations are enforced, interpreted, crafted, and sometimes even enacted by administrative bodies. How does the structure of those bodies shape land use regulation? Scholars of federal administrative law have carefully detailed the many ways that agency design influences agency governance and substantive outcomes. Less work has been done at the local level, perhaps due to a perception that agency structure matters less here. Nonetheless, it is worth understanding where agency structure shifts land use outcomes and why. Using federal administrative law as a rough map, this chapter outlines avenues for research on local land use agencies’ membership, multi-member status, and independence, the power of their staff, and the role of agencies’ jurisdiction and mission.

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