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Link to Cato Paper Corrected

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We’re Number 56

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There must not be very many architecture blogs out there, because International Listings (a real-estate service) included the Antiplanner in a list of the top 100 architecture blogs. I never thought of this blog as being about architecture, but it is in the sense that too much of what planners do is influenced by some nutty architect. International Listings describes this blog as “critiques of hundreds of development plans written by a wide variety of federal, state, and local government agencies.”

We’re included as a “niche blog” along with such blogs as the Activist Architect (who believes it is okay to raise sales taxes to build rail transit but not to build sports stadiums) and The Architecture of Fear, which is trying to “create a relevant architectural theory on how we live our lives under the unconscious umbrella of fear and danger.” Hey, I have a message for architects: not everything is about you.

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LAFCos Destroy California Housing Affordability

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Whenever the Antiplanner blames Oregon’s high housing prices on planning, someone says, “What about California? Their housing is even less affordable, and they don’t have statewide land-use planning.” California doesn’t have statewide planning, but a new report from the Cato Institute shows that it has something worse: LAFCos.

LAFCo is short for local area formation commission. In 1963, the California legislature created these commissions — one for almost every county — to oversee the formation of new cities and service districts and annexations to those cities and districts. LAFCos are governed by members of the councils of each city in the county plus the county commission.

LAFCos were not created to fight urban sprawl, which was hardly a blip on the political radar in 1963. But the legislature failed to foresee that the cities would soon use the power of LAFCos to preserve their tax bases by keeping developers from “escaping” to unincorporated areas outside their borders. They drew urban-growth boundaries and vetoed annexations in order to boost the value of the land within their boundaries.

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