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The Pick Sloan plan, local land use controls, and local growth: A longitudinal study
Abstract
River basin management offers a fertile policy arena for pluralistic politics in America. The benefits are material and can be allocated among various interest groups and Congressional districts. Management policies are changeable and offer continual opportunities for distributive and redistributive effects. Projects are usually placed in rural areas, but most project benefits accrue to downstream interests. Whereas reservoirs offer opportunities for rural economic development in the project areas, these opportunities are seldom realized. One of the most powerful sets of tools available to local governments to attract and control economic development is the authority to regulate land use. Specifically, this study focuses upon economic growth ensuing from the five federal reservoirs created by the Pick Sloan plan in North and South Dakota, and how local land-use regulation has influenced this growth. The findings presented here show that rural local governments which enact land-use controls are more likely to experience growth as measured in sales tax revenue and the value of property. Local governments failing to adopt land-use regulations are less likely to realize the economic benefits of federal water projects and are more likely to experience economic decline.
Subject Area
Political science
Recommended Citation
McLaughlin, David Louis, "The Pick Sloan plan, local land use controls, and local growth: A longitudinal study" (1988). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8824943.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8824943