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Learning from landowners to improve collaborative land-use planning
Judy Colby-George and Kathleen P. Bell University of Maine Maine Water and Sustainability Conference 2014
Collaborative land-use planning
▪ Established tradition of collaborative research and engagement within urban planning (Innes & Booher, 2010; Ramasubramanian, 2010)
▪ Increased use of spatial data, modeling, and visualization tools (Bailey & Grossardt, 2010; Jankowski & Nyerges, 2003)
▪ Employed throughout the globe
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Introduction
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Impacts on Participatory Planning
▪ Adding to data describing humans impacted by these scenarios ▪ Land-owners
▪ Citizens
▪ Residents
▪ Visitors
▪ Understanding patterns in human perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors
▪ Implementing more and more participatory approaches
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Research Project
▪ Objective: Improve understanding of landowner attitudes, behaviors, and opinions ▪ Community change
▪ Community character
▪ Characteristics
▪ Direction of change
▪ Research questions: ▪ Understanding patterns of perceptions related to
community change ▪ How does scale of analysis impact on understanding
differences among land owners?
▪ How do perceptions compare to actual change on the ground?
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Methods Overview
▪ Study Area - Bangor and Portland Metropolitan Areas, Maine, USA
▪ Data - Survey of landowners (ownership and management objectives, management behaviors, perceptions of community change, demographics), GIS data (municipal and parcel boundaries, natural resources)
▪ Analysis
▪ Descriptive statistics
▪ Visualization
▪ Statistical testing
Study Area
Bangor Sample Towns
Portland Sample Towns
Population
Persons 90,283 267,875
Persons/km2 64 139
Housing
Units 54,396 154,243
Units/km2 38 80
Median Household Income ($)
46,753 60,368
Land Area (km2) 1330 1595
Water Area (km2) 75 326
Total Area (km2) 1405 1921
Data: 2012 Maine Landowners Survey
▪ SSI’s People, Landscapes, and Communities (PLACE) Project
▪ Survey design and implementation (Dillman, Smyth, & Melani 2008)
▪ Sample
▪ Frame: 900 landowners randomly selected from both the Bangor and Portland Metro Areas (1800 landowners in total)
▪ Parcel size: 3 to 1000 acres
▪ Towns: electronic assessment and parcel data
▪ Final sample (n=677) – complete surveys
▪ Response rate ~ 40%
Landowner concerns with different issues
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0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Lack of land management information
Changing climate
Policies protecting wildlife habitat
Tresspass and liability issues
Invasive species (insects, plants)
Missing
Unsure
Not
Small
Moderate
Serious
Landowner concerns with different issues
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Restricted development options
Government regulations
Loss of property rights
Property taxes
Serious
Moderate
Small
Not
Unsure
Missing
Importance of community characteristics
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0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
Access to retail shopping
Access to transportation networks
Agricultural landscape
Employment opportunities
Recreation opportunities
Modest level of development
Missing
Not Important
Somewhat important
Somewhat important
Extremely important
Extremely important
Importance of community characteristics
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Good public services
Scenic views
Forested landscape
Access to water resources
Open spaces
Low property taxes
Privacy
Missing
Not Important
Somewhat important
Somewhat important
Extremely important
Extremely important
Change in characteristics over last 10 years
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Stock of forest lands
Stock of agricultural lands
Public water access
Scenic views
Privacy
Public services
Recreation opportunities
Missing
Decreased very much
Decreased somewhat
No change
Increased somewhat
Increased very much
Change in characteristics over last 10 years
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0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Vibrancy of downtown
Commercial development
Population level
Residential development
Traffic congestion
Cost of living
Property tax rate
Missing
Decreased very much
Decreased somewhat
No change
Increased somewhat
Increased very much
How much has you community changed since you first became an owner of this land?
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Map of community change responses
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Classification of Communities Along the Urban-Rural Gradient
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Classification of Communities Along the Urban-Rural Gradient
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Perceptions of Residential Development from
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Actual Changes by Town in Housing
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Actual Changes by Town in Housing
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Expected Results
▪ Identify what patterns exist among landowners relate to perceptions of land use change
▪ Provide information to planners related to perceptions
▪ Share results with key stakeholders and SSI teams
23 Conclusion
Thanks to:
▪ Kathleen Bell
▪ SSSIC, Bell Lab