Product No.: MIT008
Date Published: 08/2004
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This brochure is the eighth in a series of "implementation tools" brochures based on the recommendations in Horizons 2025, the region's long-range plan, prepared and adopted by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC). Protecting valuable agricultural and environmentally sensitive land is an important, yet daunting task. Without protection, sprawl could consume all the remaining open space in the region. Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) is a tool municipal officials can use to conserve high-value agricultural land, environmentally sensitive areas and recreational areas by shifting development to areas where growth is appropriate - all while providing just compensation to land owners for new development.Geographic Area Covered: Nine-county Delaware Valley region, including Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties in Pennsylvania; and Burlington, Camden, Gloucester and Mercer counties in New Jersey.
Key Words: transfer of development rights (TDR), sending zone, agricultural land, environmentally sensitive land, receiving zone, growth management, just compensation, open space protection, land banking, Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC), Chesterfield Township New Jersey, clustering, New Jersey Pinelands, development credits.
Staff Contact(s)
- Karin A. Morris, AICP (kmorris@dvrpc.org)
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