ABSTRACT
This chapter explores whether the inconsistent enforcement of Florida's 1985 Growth Management Act at the local level has displaced new housing construction from more stringent to less stringent communities. Many have argued that inconsistent growth management programs at the local level could result in the displacement of growth from more restrictive to less restrictive communities. The literature on the impacts of local growth management actions on the redistribution of housing construction is surprisingly sparse, given the importance of growth controls in affecting the housing development process. A survey for Florida planning officials is designed in order to obtain critical information about the development process as well as ascertain attitudes toward the strictness of growth management regulations. This chapter explores if a spillover supply effect exists, whether an area's greater relative stringency in implementing growth management controls results in more housing construction in neighboring jurisdictions.
