Cato on Facebook
Cato on Twitter
Cato on Google+
Cato on YouTube
Cato Mobile
Cato RSS1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403
Phone (202) 842 0200
Fax (202) 842 3490
Contact Us
The Cato Institute and the Cascade Policy Institute invite you to a luncheon discussion
The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future
BOOK FORUM
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Featuring the author, Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. Comments by John Charles, President, Cascade Policy Institute and David Hunnicutt, President, Oregonians in Action.
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon Street
Portland, OR
Thirty-six years ago, Oregon began an unprecedented land-use planning program that attempts to control how all property owners use their land. Today, the results are in: the program has imposed huge costs on rural landowners, urban homebuyers, commuters, and businesses while producing minimal environmental gains compared with states that do not have such planning. Yet too few people have learned this lesson. Federal, state, and local governments in the U.S. employ more than 20,000 planners who attempt to write comprehensive, long-range plans that would control other people's land, money, and resources. These plans almost always end in disaster.
In his new book, The Best-Laid Plans, Randal O'Toole demonstrates that comprehensive, long-range planning of other people's resources is always doomed to fail, and that Congress and state and local governments should repeal existing planning laws and shut down planning departments. O'Toole shows that the problems that planning claims to address can be better dealt with through user fees, markets, and other incentives rather than through regulatory planning.
Cost to attend is $20. Lunch is included.
To register, please contact Nancy Wheaton at the Cascade Policy Institute by calling 503-242-0900 or emailing nancy@cascadepolicy.org.
Feeds for Cato events: