ABSTRACT

This paper explores planning negotiations in neighbourhood-level urban redevelopment. Rapidly densifying cities routinely approve development projects that exceed zoning permissions, conditional on negotiations with developers for affordable housing and park space, among other public benefits. This paper provides a case analysis on negotiations in multi-actor urban redevelopment projects involving density bonusing in Toronto, Canada. Local actors framed urban redevelopment to justify broad public need, while using their wherewithal to build bargaining power with developers and city councillors. The paper finds that negotiations are symptomatic of ad-hoc planning and perpetuate uneven development processes, which pose challenges for planners to ensure stability and predictability in market-driven, discretionary planning environments.

摘要

本文探讨了邻里级城市再开发的规划谈判。快速密集的城市通常会批准超过分区许可的开发项目，条件是与开发商就经济适用房和公园空间进行谈判，以及其他公共利益。本文提供了加拿大多伦多涉及密度红利的多方城市重建项目谈判的案例分析。当地参与者制定城市重建计划以证明广泛的公众需求是合理的，同时利用他们的资金与开发商和市议员建立议价能力。该论文发现，谈判是临时规划的征兆，并使不平衡的发展过程长期存在，这对规划者在市场驱动的自由裁量规划环境中确保稳定性和可预测性提出了挑战。