Land use is essential to climate action. We need diverse, compact communities where people can meet their daily needs without a car. We need to preserve our farms, forests, and wetlands, as well as maximize their ability to sequester carbon. We need to secure the embedded energy in older buildings, safeguard our water, restore biodiversity, and adapt to the growing threat from wildfires, floods, and sea level rise. By accomplishing any one of these goals, we often receive many other benefits in addition to the mitigation of greenhouse gases and adaptation to the growing threats of climate change.\nTransfer of development rights, or TDR, is a cost-effective way of steering growth away from places needed for climate action and into locations where development can be safely and efficiently accommodated. Unlike other preservation tools, TDR is primarily powered by private sector profits rather than taxation. In addition, jurisdictions themselves can engage in the TDR process to transform a limited investment into a perpetual revolving fund for preservation.\nSmart Climate Action profiles 282 TDR programs and highlights how this market-based tool can and has been used to preserve greenbelts, forests, farms, wetlands, and landmarks as well as reduce vulnerability to wildfire, floods, sea level rise, and water scarcity. Developing a successful TDR program requires extensive community engagement and political will. However, the cost of using TDR for climate action remains much lower than the cost of inaction.\nRick Pruetz is a former city planner and planning consultant who continues to write about sustainability in general and TDR in particular. He has authored six books including Lasting Value: Open Space Planning and Preservation Successes and Ecocity Snapshots: Learning from Europe’s Greenest Places.

Smart Climate Action Through Transfer of Development Rights

Arts & Photography

Pruetz, Rick

Architecture

Arje Press

The Fundamentals of Quitting Golf offers permanent relief, or perhaps just a chuckle, to golf sufferers who swear they are going to quit the game, often using very colorful language.As explained by author David Divot, your mind is cluttered with excuses for your poor play: lack of lessons, bad courses, old clubs, new clubs and on and on. Quitting "cold turkey" does not work because, subconsciously, you want to believe this nonsense. But with Divot's ten-year course of treatment, you eventually admit that there is no excuse for your game.Explore techniques to control your anger and depression. Then ponder why you would put that monumental achievement at risk by trying to golf.Discover that having confidence in your game is the surest way to shatter your confidence.Consider why golf magazines constantly offer new tips for curing the same problems that were supposedly cured by the tips offered in previous issues.Find out how to heighten your disappointment by pretending you have some control over where your ball will go.You may not cure your golf affliction with The Fundamentals of Quitting Golf, but at least you'll have a good laugh trying.

The Fundamentals of Quitting Golf

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

iUniverse

A pioneering method to achieve various land use goals is a technique know as "transfer of development rights." In this book the author describes how TDRs can be used to protect open space and agricultural land, as well as natural resources and areas of historic value, by formally and legally transferring the development rights of these sites to other sites.

Putting Transfer of Development Rights to Work in California

Solano Pr

The United States loses over four thousand acres of farmland and natural areas to development every day. Zoning is not a permanent solution. And few communities are able to use tax dollars for meaningful open space preservation. 
However, a growing number of communities are using a market-based preservation technique called transfer of development rights, or TDR. With TDR, the owners of land that these communities want to save, called sending areas, are compensated for voluntarily restricting their development potential. The owners of land on which communities want to allow growth, called receiving areas, are allowed additional development potential, but only when they participate in the preservation of the sending areas. 
"Beyond Takings and Givings" updates and expands the 1997 publication "Saved By Development", until now the most comprehensive book on TDR. "Beyond Takings and Givings" offers a progress report on most of the 112 TDR programs profiled in the 1997 book plus case studies of 30 additional programs. "Beyond Takings and Givings" provides a step-by-step guide to creating a TDR program and addresses the most commonly asked questions on this topic. What is TDR? How did TDR evolve? Where has TDR worked best? What are TDR's success factors? What are TDR's advantages and disadvantages? How does TDR compare with other implementation tools? Why doesn't everyone use TDR? And, for communities where adoption of a traditional TDR program seems doubtful, "Beyond Takings and Givings" explains density transfer charges, a tool that reduces the seemingly complex TDR mechanism to a single requirement. 
In addition, "Beyond Takings and Givings" places TDR within the context of the ongoing property rights debate. Some property rights advocates believe that governments should compensate for regulations that reduce but do not eliminate property value, or "partial takings." In contrast, some community rights advocates argue that compensation is inappropriate because value reductions are offset by the value increases created by government actions and regulations, often without reimbursement, or "givings." TDR offers a practical alternative to this stalemate. It recaptures a portion of the extra value created by additional development at receiving sites and uses it to offset value reductions experienced by the owners of sending area land who voluntarily restrict the development potential of their properties.

Beyond Takings and Givings: Saving Natural Areas, Farmland and Historic Landmarks with Transfer of Development Rights and Density Transfer Charges

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Arje Pr

The TDR Handbook: Designing and Implementing Transfer of Development Rights Programs (Metropolitan Planning + Design)

"Transfer of Development Rights" (TDR) programs allow local governments to put economic principles to work in encouraging good land use planning. TDR programs most often permit landowners to forfeit development rights in areas targeted for preservation and then sell those development rights to buyers who want to increase the density of development in areas designated as growth areas by local authorities.   Although TDR programs must conform to zoning laws, they provide market incentives that make them more equitable (and often more lucrative) for sellers and frequently benefit buyers by allowing them to receive prior approval for their high-density development plans. Since the 1970s when modern TDR applications were first conceived, more than 200 communities in 33 states across the U.S. have implemented TDR-based programs. The most common uses of TDR to date involve protecting farmland, environmentally sensitive land, historic sites, and "rural character," and urban revitalization.   Until now, however, there has never been a clearly written, one-volume book on the subject. At last, The TDR Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to every aspect of TDR programs, from the thinking behind them to the nuts and bolts of implementation-including statutory guidance, model ordinances, suggestions for program administration, and comparisons with other types of preservation programs. In addition, six of its twenty chapters are devoted to case studies of all major uses to which TDR programs have been utilized to date, including recent urban revitalization projects that utilize TDR principles.

Nelson Ph.D. FAICP, Dr. Arthur C.

Woodruff, Doug

Island Press

"Transfer of Development Rights" (TDR) programs allow local governments to put economic principles to work in encouraging good land use planning. TDR programs most often permit landowners to forfeit development rights in areas targeted for preservation and then sell those development rights to buyers who want to increase the density of development in areas designated as growth areas by local authorities. Although TDR programs must conform to zoning laws, they provide market incentives that make them more equitable (and often more lucrative) for sellers and frequently benefit buyers by allowing them to receive prior approval for their high-density development plans. Since the 1970s when modern TDR applications were first conceived, more than 200 communities in 33 states across the U.S. have implemented TDR-based programs. The most common uses of TDR to date involve protecting farmland, environmentally sensitive land, historic sites, and "rural character," and urban revitalization. Until now, however, there has never been a clearly written, one-volume book on the subject. At last, The TDR Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to every aspect of TDR programs, from the thinking behind them to the nuts and bolts of implementation-including statutory guidance, model ordinances, suggestions for program administration, and comparisons with other types of preservation programs. In addition, six of its twenty chapters are devoted to case studies of all major uses to which TDR programs have been utilized to date, including recent urban revitalization projects that utilize TDR principles.

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Smart Climate Action Through Transfer of Development Rights

The Fundamentals of Quitting Golf

Putting Transfer of Development Rights to Work in California

Beyond Takings and Givings: Saving Natural Areas, Farmland and Historic Landmarks with Transfer of Development Rights and Density Transfer Charges

The TDR Handbook: Designing and Implementing Transfer of Development Rights Programs (Metropolitan Planning + Design)

The TDR Handbook: Designing and Implementing Transfer of Development Rights Programs (Metropolitan Planning + Design)