| April 20-21, 2007 |
"Takings: The Uses and Abuses of Emminent Domain and Land Use
Regulation," a DeVoe Moore Critical Issues Symposium, organized by Bruce Benson
and Matthew Brown. This conference is jointly sponsored with the Program in Law,
Economics and Business, College of Law. Benson and Brown have assembled together some
of the top legal scholars and economics in the nation to explore the Kelo v. New London
decision and issues related to eminent domain and regulatory takings. |
| February 2007 |
"Development and the Environment: Coordinating Fragmented
Authorities in Metropolitan Areas," a DeVoe Moore Critical Issues Symposium,
organized by John Scholz, Richard Feiock, and T.K. Ahn. This conference will
produce an edited volume bringing together leading scholars in political science
and public administration to fucus on the issue of coordination of government
policies dealing with development and environmental issues in metropolitan areas. |
| January 2007 |
Grant received by the Center: "Assessing Smart Growth Policies
in the United States," Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. This project involves
conducting five in-depth case studies, including Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon,
and Colorado. Lincoln contracted with the Center to do the Florida case study. |
| November 2006 |
Regulations Tax Project launched. This project is being conducted
by Center faculty Ron Cheung and Keith Ihlanfeldt and Center graduate student Tom
Mayock. The purpose of the project is to estimate the extent to which Florida's land
use regulations have placed a consumer tax on new single-family homes. We are looking
at how the magnitude of this tax has changed as the result of Florida's growth
management program and how the burden of the tax varies among different racial and
income groups. |
| October 2006 |
Survey on land use regulations mailed to all cities and counties
in Florida. This survey, which is being conducted by Openheim Associates for the
Center is being directed by Center affiliate, Gregory Burge.
The DeVoe Moore Center jointly sponsored a visit to FSU by John Stossel, co-anchor
of ABC's 20/20. Nearly 1,000 students were in attendance for his talk entitled
"Unintended Consequences of Government Regulation." |
| September 2006 |
The results of the Housing Affordability Research Project (HARP),
funded by the Atlanta Federal Home Loan Bank, were presented by Center Director
Keith Ihlanfeldt at the Florida Housing Coalition's Statewide Affordable Housing
Conference in Orlando. Approximately 75 people attended. Our research was also
featured as the lead article in the FHC's newsletter. |
| February 10-11, 2006 |
The DeVoe Moore Center hosted the Critical
Issues Symposium "Public and Private Institutions, Political Action,
and the Practice of Local Government." This symposium addressed issues of
political behavior, the development of public and private institutions, and the
intersection of behavior and institutions in the practice of local government.
The papers presented at the conference were published as a special issue of
the Review of Policy Research (October 2006), edited by Center faculty member
Charles Barrilleaux.
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Book Agreements Reached, "America's Housing Crisis:
A Case of Government Failure" edited by Randall Holcombe and Benjamin Powell.
This book describes how America's housing market shows many signs of crisis and in response,
many critics are calling for increased government regulation. The book will show that many of
the problems with today's housing market are the result of government interventions, and that
the market is capable of addressing those problems.
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| March 22, 2005 |
Evan Jennings, President of Jennings Partners
spoke on "Large-scale Apartment and Condominium Development."
This presentation was jointly sponsored by the DeVoe Moore Center
and the Department of Risk Management, Insurance, Real Estate,
and Business Law within the College of Business. |
March 4-5, 2005 |
The DeVoe Moore Center hosted the Critical
Issues Symposium "State and Local Government Regulations and
Economic Development." Original research by 12 nationally recognized
scholars was presented. Selected papers from this conference
were published in a special issue of The Journal of
Regional Science (February 2006), which is being edited by Center Director,
Keith Ihlanfeldt. |
| February 17, 2005 |
Ed Burr, President and Chairman of the LandMar
Group, chaired a panel discussion on land development and
government regulation. This presentation was jointly sponsored
by the DeVoe Moore Center and the Department of Risk Management,
Insurance, Real Estate, and Business Law within the College
of Business. |
January 14-15, 2005 |
The DeVoe Moore Center hosted the Critical Issues
Symposium "Evaluating Growth Management in Florida." This conference
brought to campus experts from throughout the nation to present
their original research on the effects of Florida's 1985 Growth
Management Act. The papers from this conference are being published in
a book by Ashgate Press entitled Regulating Development in the
Sunshine State: Evaluating Florida's Growth Management Approach, edited
by College of Social Sciences faculty members C.E. Connerly, T.S. Chapin, and
H.T. Higgens. |
| January 10, 2005 |
Center Director, Keith Ihlanfeldt, provides
Congressional briefing in Orlando on the Center's Housing
Research and Affordability Project, which is being sponsored
by the Atlanta Federal Home Loan Bank. |
November 8, 2004 |
The DeVoe Moore Center honors William Niskanen
with a dinner in the Werkmeister Reading Room in Dodd Hall.
Dr. Niskanen is the chairman of the Cato Institute and a former
member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors.
After dinner he spoke on "Policy Analysis and Public Choice." |
| Fall 2004 |
Gregory Burge, a DeVoe Moore Center graduate
student receives both a Lincoln Dissertation Fellowship from
the Lincoln Land Institute and a Doctoral Dissertation Research
Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
His dissertation research investigates the effects of impact
fees on the price and supply of starter homes. |
Summer 2004 |
The papers presented at the 2002 Critical
Issues Symposium "Decentralized
Governance: The Implications of Government Organization in
Metropolitan Areas" appear in the book Decentralized
Governance: The Organization of Governments in Metropolitan
Areas, Georgetown University Press, edited by Richard Feiock,
Professor of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State
University.
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| April 19-20, 2004 |
The DeVoe Moore Center hosts "A Conference
to Develop a Research Agenda on the Relationship Between Urban
Design Patterns and Quality of Life, Based on the Welaunee
Development, Tallahassee, Florida." This conference brought
to campus ten nationally known experts on Smart Growth to assist
us in developing a research agenda on Welaunee, a large infill
mixed development located within the City of Tallahassee. |
February 2004 |
The papers presented at the 2001 Critical
Issues Symposium "The Causes and Consequences of Exclusionary
Regulations" appear as a special issue of Urban
Studies, which is an interdisciplinary international
journal focusing on urban issues. The issue is edited by
Keith Ihlanfeldt, DeVoe Moore Eminent Scholar and Center
Director.
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