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Salt Lake City staff outline flexible transfer-of-development-rights plan to protect sensitive lands
Summary
Planning staff told the council an initial transfer-of-development-rights (TDR) framework could preserve watershed and landmark properties by shifting development potential to identified receiving zones, but stressed the program must be simple, economically viable and limited to receiving areas that can absorb growth.
Planning staff briefed the Salt Lake City Council on April 21 on how a transfer-of-development-rights program might work in the city and the trade-offs it would require.
Nick Norris, the city’s planning director, said the goal of a TDR program would be “to protect the land in the sending areas.” He told councilors the city’s model code uses a square-foot ratio—acre-for-acre or other multipliers—as the mechanism for transferring development potential from sensitive parcels to designated receiving areas.
The staff presentation outlined candidate sending areas that could…
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