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| McConnell, Virginia D.; Kopits, Elizabeth; Walls, Margaret. |
| Transferable development rights (TDRs) can be used as a local planning tool to preserve land for particular uses. TDRs separate ownership of the right to develop land from ownership of the land itself, creating a market in which the development rights can be bought and sold. Landowners who sell TDRs permanently preserve their land in an undeveloped state; those TDRs are then used to increase the density of development elsewhere. In this paper, we evaluate a TDR program for preserving farmland in Calvert County, Maryland. We evaluate the performance of the TDR market over the 23-year life of the program by looking at the number of transactions and TDRs sold and the level and dispersion of prices over time. We also look closely at the influence of the county... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Land use; Farmland preservation; Development rights; Land Economics/Use; Q15; Q24; R140. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10659 |
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| Lynch, Lori; Duke, Joshua M.. |
| For the last 50 years, local, state and the federal governments have expressed concerns about farmland retention. Four benefits have been used to warrant farmland preservation programs: food security and local food supply, viable local agricultural economy, environmental and rural amenities, and sound fiscal policy and orderly development. We explore the available evidence of how well farmland preservation programs have provided these benefits. Research suggests that people clearly desire farmland preservation programs and express a willingness to pay for the environmental and rural amenities provided. Some evidence has been found that farmland preservation programs can benefit the local economy and/or have no negative impacts relative to other economic... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Farmland preservation; Food security; Environmental amenities; Rural amenities; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/7342 |
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| Gottlieb, Paul D.; O'Donnell, Anthony; Rudel, Thomas; O'Neill, Karen; McDermott, Melanie. |
| Local governments in the United States use a wide range of tools to preserve rural landscapes. Some of these tools, like the purchase or transfer of development rights, are generally welcomed by farmers and other large landowners. Other tools, like increasing the minimum lot size in a town’s agricultural zone, are more controversial because they are believed to have negative effects on landowner wealth. In this contentious policy environment, it would be useful to know which land use tools actually work to control residential growth, thus achieving the consensual objective of rural preservation. It is reasonable to suppose that large-lot zoning and open space preservation will both reduce the number of homes in a community when it is fully developed.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Land use; Farmland preservation; Zoning; Housing; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use; R52; R14; R31. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49310 |
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