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  • 4 - Land Use Regulations and Public Input

  • Katherine Levine Einstein, Boston University, David M. Glick, Boston University, Maxwell Palmer, Boston University
  • Book:
    Neighborhood Defenders
    Published online:
    18 November 2019
    Print publication:
    05 December 2019, pp 80-94

  • Summary

    Chapter 4 directly links the regulations introduced in Chapter 3 with public meetings. This chapter focuses on why proposals end up in public meetings and what types of issues members of the public and zoning officials raise. We introduce the novel data on meeting minutes from Massachusetts cities and towns that we use in Chapters 4, 5, and 6. Using these meeting minutes, we trace 100 randomly selected proposals in which we collected especially detailed project and meeting information. We show that once a project requires a public hearing, members of the public raise any and all concerns—not just those directly pertaining to the regulations that necessitated a meeting in the first place. The regulations described in Chapter 3 provide the opportunities for neighborhood defenders to air virtually all of their concerns and objections.