Joint facilities in legal private management
Borges, Klas Ernald
The Swedish Joint Facilities create a common resource system for externalities of the individual property, such as common roads, bridges, residential services (waste disposal, car park, community places), irrigation and drainage schemes, and hunting ground. In a historical perspective, such facilities belonged to the village community, and remained as externalities when the society forced an internalisation into individual plots. The individualisation of property rights could not include such common resource systems. Today, the society demands a well-defined number of appropriators of common facilities. The Swedish Joint Facilities Act operates efficiently with the landowners as legal appropriators. The Governmental Cadastral Officer creates an association as legal owner of the joint facilities, and hands it over to their own management. Only landowners with positive total outcome of cost and benefits are included, defined by the cadastral officer. The individual expectation value might occasionally reach negative values, but the cadastral officer estimates the general market value of the benefits of facility for each property. The estimation is done only once when the joint facility is created.
Event: XXIII International FIG Congress : Shaping the change
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