Growth management receives strong support as a policy concept. However, there are serious political reservations concerning its implementation. The Florida Growth Management Act is an example of a well constructed policy that relies on a partnership approach to state-local relations. Its implementation during 1989 has brought to light the difficulties in maintaining that partnership, mainly due to disagreements over responsibility for funding the infrastructure needed to manage growth. State willingness to negotiate revenue sources and responsibility is essential to strong state-local relations. The complexities of financing growth management threaten the viability of strong planning policy, regardless of its rationality.
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Robyne S. Turner (1990) studied this question.