the etowah initiative:
spring 2003
regional transferable development rights
program concept and structure
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| Luke Baine |
Lisa Kruse |
Katrina Landau |
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| Kevin Woolf |
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The goal of the TDR program would be to protect sensitive natural resources
(particularly imperiled aquatic species habitat) and encourage more intensive
development where there is infrastructure adequate to accommodate it.
The TDR program would likely be a component of the Etowah Habitat Conservation
Plan. Some research on TDRs has already been done by a previous Practicum
class (the Regional Greenspace group) and by the Law School's Land Use
Clinic but receiving/sending areas have not been identified, ordinances
written for the Etowah, or the issue of regionalization, etc., addressed.
Cherokee and Forsyth Counties have already expressed an interest in a
regional TDR program and this project would involve talking to land use
committees in both of these counties. Another component would be to include
some of the large tracts of timber land that are now being sold by the
large timber companies into the preserved areas (sending areas).
Client: The Etowah HCP Advisory Committee (the faculty for this class)
and Candace Stoughton (cstoughton@tnc.org),
The Nature Conservancy.
Draft Work Plan
(MS Word)
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