THE CHICKENS CAN COME HOME TO ROOST - THE ANATOMY OF A LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE CRISIS

Local governments are entrusting private developers with supplying the ir communities' roads and water, sewer, and drainage systems. In this study, the author examines a 30-year public-private partnership in inf rastructure that failed its community. The analysis reflects the vulne rability of local public authority and citizen participation in the pu bic-private partnership. The case highlights the broader issue of gove rnance in land use as county and state intervention in the partnership contributed to the infrastructure crisis. Overlapping local land-use controls with growth management mandates offered no panacea for govern ing a private producer of public services.