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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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