Decision Tool
Answer some simple questions about your project:
Instructions: 
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Is the land in question publicly owned?
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Is there access to capital markets?
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Is there a property tax collection framework in place?
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Is there a property cadastral database or record system?
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Is the land made up of a single parcel, or fragmented?
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Is there a zoning or land use planning framework in place?
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Are there environmental concerns with the land?
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Is there an existing community on the land?
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Are there informal settlements or renters on the land?
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Planning
- Charettes
- Defining Early Wins
- Defining the Implementation Process and Institutional Arrangements
- Defining the Planning Framework
- Developing Design Standards
- Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Site Remediation Plan
- Expropriation
- Land Administration
- Land Sharing
- Managing the Potential Undesirable Impacts of Urban Regeneration: Gentrification and Loss of Social Capital
- Master Planning
- Partnering Arrangements with the Private Sector
- Progressive Taxation of Vacant Land
- Setting the Scene
- Site Assessment
- Site Investigation
- The Right of Preemption
- Tools for Community Participation
- Using Technology for Public Participation
- Valuation of Public Land
- Zoning and Land Use Planning
Financing
- Betterment Levies
- Business Improvement Districts
- Capital Investment Planning
- Density Bonus
- Developer Exactions and Impact Fees
- Direct Grants
- Housing Vouchers (or demand-side subsidies) as an Alternative to Inclusionary Zoning
- Inclusionary Zoning
- Intergovernmental Transfers
- Land Readjustment
- Land Swaps
- Low-Cost Loans
- Payment-in-Lieu-of-Taxes (PILOT)
- Public Land as an Equity Contribution toward a Joint Venture
- Public Land as an “In Kind” Payment in Return for Construction of Public Infrastructure
- Sale or Long-Term Lease of a Municipally-Owned Site through an Arm’s-Length Transaction
- Sale or Long-Term Lease through a Strategic Negotiated Transaction
- Special Assessment Districts
- Tax Incentives
- Tax Increment Financing (TIF)
- Transferable Development Rights
- Up-zoning
- Urban Redevelopment
