Growth Management Monitoring Programs
Contents
- Introduction
- Washington Regional or Local Government Monitoring Reports
- Monitoring Reports from Regional or Local Governments in Other States
- Monitoring Reports from Interest Groups or Nonprofit Organizations
- Land Supply Monitoring
Introduction
Cities and counties must review and update GMA comprehensive plans, development and regulations and the adequacy of urban growth areas periodically to ensure consistency with state statutes. A growth management monitoring program can help local jurisdictions track where growth is going and how well various pieces of the growth managment program are working. Information from the monitoring program can help cities and counties to fine tune plan policies and development regulations to better achieve growth management goals. The following examples of growth management monitoring programs from Washington and other states are available online:
Washington Regional or Local Government Monitoring Reports
- Puget Sound Milestones Regional Monitoring - Puget Sound Regional Council program to monitor progress toward achieving regional vision.
- Puget Sound Regional Council Publications - Monitoring
- Clark County Plan Monitoring Report 2000; Executive Summary; List of Indicators, pp 4-6.
- The 2005 - 2006 King County Benchmark Report
- The 2005 King County Annual Growth Report
- Regional Benchmark for Thurston County: Tracking Growth Management Policy Implementation - 2003 Edition.
Monitoring Reports from Regional or Local Governments in Other States
- The Portland region – how are we doing? Provides links to the excellent “2004 Performance Measures Report: An evaluation of 2040 growth management policies and implementation” - and to an executive summary. Uses a number of indicators to measure performance policy by policy, Portland Metro.
- Portland Metro 2002 – 2022 Urban Growth Reports. Two Reports: An Employment Land Needs Analysis, and A Residential Land Needs Analysis – A five year check on adequacy of employment and residential land supply.
- A Decade of Smart Growth: Lancaster County (PA) Growth Tracking Report, 1993 – 2003 – Brief, well-illustrated report highlights key aspects of county growth.
- Lancaster County (PA) Growth Tracking Report, 1994 – 2001 – Older report with great graphics covers more aspects of county growth.
- City Plan Monitoring Report: 2001 Indicator Report, August 2001, Ft Collins, CO - Comprehensive report on progress in implementing City Plan.
- Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR 2004), Broward County FL – Florida local governments are required to prepare an Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) of their adopted Comprehensive Plan every seven (7) years.
- Arizona Growing Smarter Oversight Council - The Oversight Council is charged with monitoring the effectiveness of its growth management statutes and with suggesting improvements.
- Chula Vista's (CA) Growth Management Report - The city monitors 11 threshold standards and has also appointed a Growth Management Oversight Commission.
- Monitoring Growth Report - Annual reports on progress toward regioanl plan vision, REgional District of Nanaimo, B.C., Canada.
- 2004 Annual Report – Livable Region Strategic Plan, Greater Vancouver Regional District - Indicators used to measure progress toward achieving regional growth strategy objectives.
Monitoring Reports from Interest Groups or Nonprofit Organizations
- This report notes the shortcomings of GMA (development community perspective): GMA: Goals and Promises Reviewed - Washington Research Council
- This report notes shortcomings of GMA from an organization that promotes growth management : Get Smart Washington: Managing Growth in the New Millennium, Futurewise, June 2000.
- The Growth Management Act (GMA) After More than 10 Years: Another Look & A Response to Criticisms, Futurewise, 2002 - This report addresses a number of criticisms that are leveled at the Growth Management Act. A Power Point summary is also available.
- Evaluation of Local Implementation of the Washington State Growth Management Act for the National Association of Realtors, Douglas R. Porter, The Growth Management Institute, March 2005.
Land Supply Monitoring
- Monitoring Land and Housing Markets: An Essential Tool for Smart Growth, Gerrit J. Knaap, National Center for Housing and the Environment, University of Maryland, January 2004. This article describes how communities can develop a land monitoring system to track local land and housing market information. Such information is essential to planners and policymakers in efforts to adjust and improve the practice of urban growth management.
- Land Supply and Infrastructure Capacity Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth, Gerrit J. Knaap, and Terry Moore, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy working paper, 2000.
- Metro's Regional Land Information System: The Virtual Key to Portland’s Growth Management Success, Richard Bolen, Gerrit Knaap, and Ethan Seltzer, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy working paper, 2003.
- The Land Market Monitoring National Demonstration Project, National Center for Housing and the Environment, University of Maryland.
- Land Market Monitoring – Relevant Publications – from National Center for Housing and the Environment, University of Maryland web site.
- Twin Cities Metropolitan Area Urban Land Supply Study, Metropolitan Council, 2001.
- Development Capacity Task Force, State of Maryland – Guidebook, models and guidelines for estimating development capacity.
- Growth Watch: Monitoring Austin's (TX) Growth & Development
- Planning for the region’s industrial land – analysis of industrial land supply in Oregon, Portland Metro.
- Buildable Lands, Washington Community Trades and Economic Development Department website with information about Washington’s program and links to county programs in the Puget Sound area and in Oregon.
- Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems: Theory, Practice, and Parcel-Based Approaches, Anne Vernez Moudon (Editor), Michael Hubner (Editor), New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, May 2000 – Abstract and order form from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
- “Estimating and Analyzing Land Supply Development Capacity: The Case of Southeast Seattle,” Anne Vernez Moudon, May 2001 - Abstract and order form from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Gerrit J. Knaap, ed., 2001 – Abstract and order form.