Readme Terner California Residential Land Use Survey Dataset Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley Citation: Sarah Mawhorter and Carolina Reid (2018). Terner California Residential Land Use Survey. Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley. Authors: Sarah Mawhorter, Postdoctoral Scholar Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Survey implementation: Liana Arnold, Graduate Researcher Ryan Kelley-Cahill, Undergraduate Researcher Julia Morris, Undergraduate Researcher Derek Taylor, Undergraduate Researcher Data files: Readme: TCRLUS_readme.txt Codebook: TCRLUS_codebook.txt Survey instrument: TCRLUS_surveyinstrument Stata dataset: TCRLUS_data.dta CSV dataset with numerical responses: TCRLUS_data.csv CSV dataset with text responses: TCRLUS_labeled.csv Survey Design: The Terner Center designed and implemented a statewide residential land use survey in order to develop a detailed inventory of land use regulation at the jurisdictional level. The Terner Center Residential Land Use Survey covers a broad array of topics, including zoning regulations, affordable housing regulations, and local approval processes. A comprehensive, current review of land use practices lends insight into an array of questions facing researchers and policymakers today. The survey is intended to provide tangible answers to those questions, and to aid researchers, policymakers, advocacy groups, and practitioners as they consider land use issues. Survey Review Process: The Terner Center Residential Land Use Survey was informed by previous surveys of land use regulations. Landis’s 2000 survey, Raising the Roof, reviewed growth management policies in the state, while the Brookings National Survey on Local Residential Development Regulation (Pendall, Puentes, & Martin, 2006) and the Wharton Survey on Residential Land Use Regulation (Gyourko, Saiz, & Summers, 2008) reviewed local land use regulations across the nation. The Wharton Survey’s research team consolidated their findings into an index measuring the stringency of local regulation. The 2013 California Land Use Survey (Jackson, 2018) also provided the foundation for an index, and expanded the survey structure to include questions about respondents’ personal perceptions of factors such as uncertainty in permitting. The research team drew on local land use experts, academics, and planning practitioners to design and review the Residential Land Use Survey. Regular consultations with the California Department of Housing and Community Development informed the survey topics and initial questions. Land use professionals, planners, and academics reviewed initial drafts of the survey and provided valuable feedback on its content. The Terner Center is indebted to all of the experts who contributed their time towards constructing a rigorous and relevant survey instrument, including the following: Land Use Experts: Barbara Kautz, American Planning Association Paul Campos, Builders Industry Association of California Rob Wiener, California Rural Housing Coalition Jennifer LeSar, Estolano LeSar Perez Sarah Kruer Jager, Monarch Group Mike Rawson, Public Interest Law Project Tom Collishaw, Self-Help Enterprises Lynette Dias, Urban Planning Partners, Inc. Academics: Karen Chapple, UC Berkeley Nathaniel Decker, UC Berkeley Rocio Sanchez-Moyano, UC Berkeley Paavo Monkkonen, UCLA Rolf Pendall, Urban Institute Jake Wegmann, UT Austin Planning Practitioners: Duane Bay, Association of Bay Area of Governments Gillian Adams, Association of Bay Area of Governments Kearstin Dischinger, City and County of San Francisco Dan Schoenholz, City of Fremont Matt Glesne, City of Los Angeles Greg Sandlund, City of Sacramento Paul McDougall, Department of Housing and Community Development Robin Huntley, Department of Housing and Community Development Sahar Shirazi, Governor's Office of Planning and Research Connie Chung, Los Angeles County Ma’Ayn Johnson, Southern California Association of Governments Survey Implementation: The Residential Land Use Survey was distributed to all 482 incorporated cities and 57 unincorporated areas, covering the entire State of California. Over a year, from August 2017 to August 2018, 250 of the 482 incorporated cities and 18 of the 57 county jurisdictions responded, for a total response rate of 50%. The jurisdictions that responded cover 70% of the population of California. The survey was designed and distributed online through Qualtrics, a questionnaire platform, although respondents could also respond via a fillable PDF. Terner researchers sent the survey request out to planning staff at each jurisdiction via email, and, if necessary, researchers followed up via email and phone. The response rate is due in large part to the dedication of graduate student researcher Liana Arnold and undergraduate student researchers Derek Taylor, Julia Morris, and Ryan Kelly-Cahill.