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Walking The Tightrope: Balancing Conservation, Local Growth, And The Uncertainty Of Rural Development, Michael A. Powell
Walking The Tightrope: Balancing Conservation, Local Growth, And The Uncertainty Of Rural Development, Michael A. Powell
Michael A Powell
Economic development is a complex issue, and placing it in a rural context complicates it further, primarily due to issues with local governance and the difficulty in defining the term “rural.” The result is that economic development policies often ignore development in rural areas, and development in those areas becomes uncoordinated and unproductive. One exception is the Growth Management Act (GMA) enacted by the State of Washington, which established a rural development regime that decentralized planning but retained regional and statewide oversight. This paper uses a lawsuit filed against one of the GMA’s regional boards as a case study to …