Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
Concurrency between development and provision of public facilities is one of the major subjects for growth control. In order to address this issue, 13 counties and 13 cities in Maryland State introduced Adequate Public Facilities Ordinances (APFO). APFO covers schools, roads, water and sewerage, police, fire fighting, and parks. If these public facilities are not sufficient, development applications are declined or suspended until facilities are constructed according to a capital improvement plan. For effective use of APFO, it is necessary to provide sufficient financial resources to construct public facilities, countermeasures to cope with rise of housing price and reduction of housing supply due to impact fee charged to developers and moratorium, and cooperation between a county and cities.
