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Chesapeake staff unveil proposed transferable development rights program to steer growth and preserve farmland
Summary
Planning staff and consultant Dr. Tom Daniels presented a voluntary Transferable Development Rights (TDR) program proposing 50‑acre minimum sending parcels and Greenbrier receiving areas to concentrate density while compensating rural landowners; next steps include an initiating resolution and ordinance drafting.
Planning staff and a consultant on March 11 outlined a proposed Transferable Development Rights program designed to preserve agricultural and environmentally sensitive lands while directing new housing and higher density to designated receiving areas such as Greenbrier.
The presentation, led by planning staff and consultant Dr. Tom Daniels, explained that a TDR gives a landowner in a rural “sending area” the right to sell development capacity to a developer who can then build at higher density in a receiving area. "A transferable development right is a right that is created by local government and is given to landowners in an area where the local government would like to see the land preserved," Dr. Daniels told the Planning Commission.
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