TY - JOUR
T1 - The actual impact of comprehensive land-use plans
T2 - Insights from high resolution observations
AU - Alfasi, Nurit
AU - Almagor, Jonatan
AU - Benenson, Itzhak
PY - 2012/10
Y1 - 2012/10
N2 - Like most EU and US planning systems, planning in Israel aims to promote certainty regarding future development by employing statutory land-use plans for stabilizing and binding the development of land use. In Israel, district planning from the 1980s onwards took place in the form of long-term land-use plans. However, in practice, Israeli planning witnessed a movement toward discretionary-oriented decision-making, providing for revisions of the land-use plans and subsequently diminishing its efficacy. A pending reform suggests eliminating district land-use plans and absorbing them into national and local plans. Concerning the debate on the future of the Israeli planning system, this research aims to assess the gap between certainty-oriented regulation and actual development, often occurring on a case-by-case basis. Our aim is to evaluate the actual performance of a district land-use plan, focusing particularly on aspects of land-use. Remote Sensing and GIS-based Plan Implementation Evaluation (PIE) analysis was used to test the impact of a comprehensive outline plan for Israel's Central District on the actual development of the built environment. The results show fundamental gaps between the original land-use assignments of the district plan and actual development. The limited effectiveness of regulatory land-use planning for complex, densely populated districts is then discussed in line with the certainty-flexibility dilemma in land-use planning and the structure of planning decision-making in Israel.
AB - Like most EU and US planning systems, planning in Israel aims to promote certainty regarding future development by employing statutory land-use plans for stabilizing and binding the development of land use. In Israel, district planning from the 1980s onwards took place in the form of long-term land-use plans. However, in practice, Israeli planning witnessed a movement toward discretionary-oriented decision-making, providing for revisions of the land-use plans and subsequently diminishing its efficacy. A pending reform suggests eliminating district land-use plans and absorbing them into national and local plans. Concerning the debate on the future of the Israeli planning system, this research aims to assess the gap between certainty-oriented regulation and actual development, often occurring on a case-by-case basis. Our aim is to evaluate the actual performance of a district land-use plan, focusing particularly on aspects of land-use. Remote Sensing and GIS-based Plan Implementation Evaluation (PIE) analysis was used to test the impact of a comprehensive outline plan for Israel's Central District on the actual development of the built environment. The results show fundamental gaps between the original land-use assignments of the district plan and actual development. The limited effectiveness of regulatory land-use planning for complex, densely populated districts is then discussed in line with the certainty-flexibility dilemma in land-use planning and the structure of planning decision-making in Israel.
KW - Israel
KW - Land use planning
KW - Plan Implementation Evaluation
KW - Regional planning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84857797421&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.01.003
DO - 10.1016/j.landusepol.2012.01.003
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AN - SCOPUS:84857797421
SN - 0264-8377
VL - 29
SP - 862
EP - 877
JO - Land Use Policy
JF - Land Use Policy
IS - 4
ER -
