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Summary

The education and training of local governmental planners tend to neglect the importance and role of public finance in the practice of the planning. Planning curricula seldom includes public finance as a required subject and planning conventions and conferences infrequently include finance among the topics addressed in their sessions. As a result, a typical planner’s understanding of public finance is weak even though public finance in general, and capital facility finance in specific, is critical to the implementation of comprehensive plans and other planning programs. Planning decisions also affect public financial obligations and resources (most notably, but not limited to, the costs of supporting urban sprawl) and financial decisions can impose constraints on, or provide incentives for development.
This book presents 134articles that were written to address these deficiencies in the training of local governmental planners by providing an understanding of public finance and how financial issues and their management affect the work of planners in local government. These articles were originally published in Western Planner from 1996 to 2013. . The amalgamation of these articles into this one document provides a comprehensive reference on the relationships between community development and public finance.

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