Sixth Annual Stegner Symposium

Metropolitan Growth: Turning Regional Visions Into Real Results

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We have built a three-part framework for understanding regional visioning and implementation efforts: institutional arrangements, programs/processes and tools.

You can see examples of each by following the links below, or download the entire report here:
Microsoft Word 2000 document (1.1MB) or as a PDF file (3.9MB).

IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK

In this chart we have characterized the manner that residents, their representative agencies, and other stakeholders are organizing efforts to turn these statements about the regional future into reality. The categories are intended to offer a useful framework for understanding the range of efforts while the examples provided are intended to be representative, as opposed to inclusive, of activities in each category. In each section, the examples are listed in descending order of government involvement top to bottom. The columns become more specific from the left to the right.

Institutional Arrangements

The institutional arrangements refer to the delegation, distribution, or sharing of power related to growth management decision-making and implementation authority. On a scale of Government-Governance, Government power represents planning as the exclusive domain of a state or regional public agency; Governance reflects relative degrees of delegated or shared power with smaller units of government and/or non profit and private entities.

Programs and Processes

Implementation programs and processes have developed in each state as it establishes its own growth and land use laws and policies. The programs and processes work in cooperation with the institutional arrangements and preferences of that state. Some processes rely on requirements and regulations (Government), others provide incentives and penalties, and some are voluntary (Governance).

Tools

Tools are specific mechanisms, programs or entities used to implement regional visions and growth management plans. Participation can be required or voluntary. Examples are characterized as either regulatory or market-based.