Failure and opportunities of public value capture and developer obligations in Polish urban development

Autor: Gielen Demetrio Muñoz, Ossowicz Tomasz, Zaborowski Tomasz Piotr
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Miscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, Vol 26, Iss 1, Pp 15-30 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2084-6118
DOI: 10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0071
Popis: As many countries pursue private financing for urban public infrastructure, the tools for public value capture (PVC) gain prominence. This paper analyses Polish PVC tools in general, and spotlights a specific type: developer obligations (DOs). The authors conclude that the tools are ineffective for a series of reasons: negligence in the elaboration of pragmatic rationales (to mitigate the negative impacts of urban development), a lack of feasible (affordable) coercive land policy tools, and legislation (which puts Poland in sharp contrast to other countries) that prohibits municipalities from requiring DOs in exchange for approval of a land-use plan or planning permit, as well as the general ban on securing such obligations in a planning agreement (except for specific situations introduced by recent laws that have not yet been applied). As a consequence, new urban development in Poland neither includes sufficient urban public infrastructure, nor does it provide for social/affordable housing.
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