Partnerships Beyond Pump Priming Ch' 8

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Partnerships Beyond Pump Priming Ch. 8
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Land Exchange

• Eliminates need to expend dollars
• Guidelines
• Exchange must be in public interest
• Must be equal or greater value gained
• Exchanged on market value
• Long gestation period
• Difficult to ascribe value (accurate appraisals)
• Change in property values
• Public input is it in their interest?
• Uses many resources (cost staff time)
• May have to obtain enabling legislation

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Types of Voluntary Exchanges

• Direct Barter of Lands
• Trilliom DNR (11.7k for 9.3k)
• 3rd Party Exchanges (ie, Public Land Trust)
• Public agency identifies wanted land (a)
• then identifies matching value land in surplus
  (b)
• 3rd Party (ie, Foundation) finds buyer for (a)
• Then purchases (b) with surplus from sale
• Trade-Out or Quid Pro Quo
• Allow private to do something, given a parcel

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Mitigation Land Exchanges

• Involuntary form of land exchange
• Payment imposed on developers polluters
• compensate society for their negative impacts
  on the environment

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Use Existing Facilities and Classes

• Rec Facilities or Classes
• Partnering w/ local commercial enterprises
• ie, malls, bowling alleys, golf courses
• Use Off-peak times and reduced bulk rates
• Free promotion for commercial outfitter
• Constituency served
• Limited fixed costs, flexibility to market changes

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Existing Facilities (cont)

• Urban Parks (usually vacant lots)
• Short term leases at nominal rates may be
  arranged with private landowners
• Often, developers purchase land ahead of growth
• Generally, a simple permission-to-use agreement
  is used
• Playground equipment can be moved, and no
  ownership has been lost

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Existing Facilities (cont.)

• Beyond the Urban Environment
• Lumber or Other Private Companies
• Issue a public-access stamp to picnic, hunt, etc.
• Usually leased to private industry though

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Access to Private Lands

• Why in decline?
• Liability (Rec Land Use Statutes help)
• Trespassers no willful or malicious injury
• Licensees (no fee) adequate warning of hazards
• Invitees (fee) for business highest liability
• Property Abuse
• Can partner w/ clubs to maintain for their access
• Protectionism
• Want benefit only for selves or guests

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Using Utility Company Lands

• Often have viable resources
• Much of their land is Rights of Way
• If by Easement very tedious difficult
• Must obtain rights from a third party (lease
  owner)
• If they own the rights of way
• Often leased to adjacent landowners instead
• They must worry about liability
• Not used often, but may be viable

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Takeover of Faltering Business

• Appropriate only if matches needs
• Does the business compliment what you have?
• Often eligible for grants, tax breaks, etc.
• may make non-profitable, profitable
• May be more difficult to make money
• Expenses may be higher (salaries, etc.)
• Management style attitude differences

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Joint Development with Commercial Sector

• Multiparty Partnerships (public private
• PR takes lead involving financial partners
• Very complex and difficult to implement
• May involve schools, hospitals, commercial
• Build pools, rec centers, amusement parks, etc.
• Expansion of Existing Facilities
• Private may want off-times of rest of facility
• pay for improvements access to all

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Joint Dvlpmt w/ Private (cont.)

• Commercial Sector Pump Priming
• Business uses its assets to get PR agency to
  make investment in facility (usually golf)
• To increase property value, or traffic
• Leaseback Arrangements
• Facility constructed w/ PRs specs
• Operated by the private sector
• PR leases time w/ the facility later
• ie, schools PR

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More Joint Development

• Multiple Exploitation of Resource
• Finance resource that is publicly owned
• Both use resource, public receives payment
• Golf Course and Lumber co. (both use)
• Park and Mining Company
• Landfill when landfill full build park on