ABSTRACT
In 1981 the Indiana General Assembly eliminated the State Planning Services Agency, thus effectively ending the state’s role in encouraging land use planning and developing a capacity for planning at the local level. In the mid-1990s county commissioners in suburban Morgan County, near the Indianapolis International Airport, abruptly ended a comprehensive planning process and dismissed its planner because of citizen complaints about the erosion of property rights, confiscation of property, and intrusion of government into private affairs.
