Failure and opportunities of public value capture and developer obligations in Polish urban development

• Authors: Demetrio Muñoz Gielen , Tomasz Ossowicz , Tomasz Piotr Zaborowski

Abstracts

EN

As many countries pursue private financing for urban public infrastructure, the tools for public value capture (PVC) gain prominence. This paper analyses Polish PVC tools in general, and spotlights a specific type: developer obligations (DOs). The authors conclude that the tools are inefective for a series of reasons: negligence in the elaboration of pragmatic rationales (to mitigate the negative impacts of urban development), a lack of feasible (afordable) coercive land policy tools, and legislation (which puts Poland in sharp contrast to other countries) that prohibits municipalities from requiring DOs in exchange for approval of a land-use plan or planning permit, as well as the general ban on securing such obligations in a planning agreement (except for specific situations introduced by recent laws that have not yet been applied). As a consequence, new urban development in Poland neither includes suficient urban public infrastructure, nor does it provide for social/ afordable housing.

Keywords

EN

Public value capture; urban development; Poland; urban public infrastructure; afordable housing; developer obligations; land readjustment

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 1

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Demetrio Muñoz Gielen

• Radboud Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

• https://orcid.org/0000000168632336

author

Tomasz Ossowicz

• Faculty of Architecture, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000168632336

author

Tomasz Piotr Zaborowski

• Faculty of Geograohy and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000000196565169

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0071

Biblioteka Nauki

2092543