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Economic Impacts Of Land Use Control: The California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission, Institute Of Governmental Affairs, Institute Of Ecology

California Agencies

While there is much discussion of the impact of land use controls, economic research on their effects has lagged. This study examines the economic rationale of such controls from the perspective of economic theory and notes that only recently have theorists begun to develop and test models of land and housing markets explicitly incorporating zoning and other land use controls.