First Steps and Western Lands and Communities Resources

This multi-year project started with background research on issues and challenges around development entitlements in the West, including the legal, economic, planning, and design issues associated with the entitlements. The research was presented at a workshop in November 2009 to financial, planning, legal and development experts. Workshop participants considered the nature of existing entitlement issues and identified promising policy options.    

View the project’s background papers:

• Premature Subdivisions and What to Do About Them
• Rural Real Estate Markets and Conservation Development in the Intermountain West: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities Emerging from the Great Recession
• The Fiscal Impacts of Development on Vacant Rural Subdivision Lots in Teton County, Idaho

Additional papers produced after the November 2009 experts' convening:

• Subdivision in the Intermountain West
• Addressing Excess Development Entitlements

Western Lands and Communities Presentations

Western Lands and Communities staff and partners in the reshaping development patterns effort have made a number of conference presentations.
See specific presentations listed in the Presentations sidebar to the right. 

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