Land Lines April 2013
Valuing and Taxing Iconic Properties
In most countries, government property is not liable for property taxes, but the United Kingdom has started charging Crown properties notional rents to help meet the cost of local services.
A Tale of Two Land Trusts
Land trusts across the United States differ vastly in terms of age, size of protected acreage, mission, strategy, budget, and context. Analysis of their particular histories and characteristics offers lessons for all involved in the work of preserving open space.
Planning for States and Nation/States
Our ability to meet critical global challenges depends on the legal and institutional foundations of planning. Several U.S. states and European nations have begun to experiment with new and innovative institutional approaches to planning to address these issues.
This issue explores how, in recent years, the United Kingdom has imposed land-based taxes on the Crown’s properties in order to help fund local public services; the variability of types, and determinants of success, of land trusts in the United States; and an analysis of institutional and legal planning frameworks both here and in Europe.