service & outreach: land use planning & growth management:
tools for quality growth
guiding big box retail
Big box retail stores are often controversial. Residents fear impacts such as increased traffic, noise, light pollution, economic impacts on existing small-scale retailers, and "big box blight" caused by retailers abandoning existing sites for new stores.
Papers and Presentations
Controlling Big Box Retail Development in Georgia, 2004, Matt Roberts, Brian White, Elizabeth Simpson, Anna Hauser, Land Use Clinic. Strategies to help communities to avoid "big box blight" caused by retailers abandoning existing sites for new stores, leaving empty eyesores in their wake.
Managing Large Scale Retail, 2005, Jamie Baker Roskie, Land Use Clinic. (PDF version of Powerpoint presentation)
Research
The UGA Land Use Clinic is conducting ongoing research into the regulation of big box retail in Georgia.
Resources and References
The Hometown Advantage is a Web site containing news and information about regulation of big box retail throughout the country. It is sponsored by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a community economic development think tank.
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