Attitudes toward land use controls within a multi‐ethnic county of ohio

Abstract

Data was collected from residents of a multi‐ethnic county in northeast Ohio to test a vested interest theoretical perspective focused upon land use controls. The findings demonstrated that people who had the highest probability of being harmed by land use controls tended to be less supportive than individuals who had the highest probability of being benefitted by such action. People who believed in collective rights to land resources, valued community planning, and tended to be nonlocalistic in terms of decisionmaking had a propensity to be much more favorable toward land use controls than people with opposite orientations.