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Planning Commission forwards Wood Rogers TDR study with recommendations to county commissioners
Summary
After Wood Rogers presented findings that Douglas County currently has a surplus of transfer-development-rights (TDRs) and recommended a phased program of tracking, code clarity and incentives, the Planning Commission voted to send the report with a written addendum of the commission’s recommendations to the Board of County Commissioners.
The Douglas County Planning Commission voted unanimously to transmit a final report from consultants Wood Rogers on the county’s transfer-development-rights (TDR) program to the Board of County Commissioners, together with a Planning Commission addendum identifying specific next steps.
The consultants and county staff told the commission the program, established in 1996, has preserved about 4,600 acres but now faces a market shortfall: high land values and low developer demand have left a surplus of tradable rights. "So there is a surplus of TDRs right now," Derek Kirkland of Wood Rogers said, summarizing the study's inventory of roughly 7,572 TDRs historically certified,…
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