An Inventory of Transfer of Development Rights Programs in the United States

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  • April 18, 2019
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  • Timmerman, Dylan
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning
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  • Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) programs are a development management tool used in many jurisdictions around the country to shift development intensity between land parcels. The use of TDR programs is not universally adopted across the country, however, and the purposes of the programs varies. This project aims to compile a comprehensive listing of TDR programs and their primary attributes in order to categorize and map their implementation. This project also aims to examine a few socio-economic characteristics to determine their association with TDR program adoption through a logistic regression. The primary questions this project aims to address are; Are there spatial relationships between where TDR programs have been implemented? Are there categories of TDR programs based on their function and who is implementing them that can be categorized? Are there socio-economic characteristics that are associated with an increase or decrease in the odds of a TDR program being present in an area? The inventory of TDR programs found 363 programs. The TDR programs identified are most commonly used to preserve important natural resources, promote development in particular areas through density incentivization, or a combination of these goals. Local government is the primary level through which TDR programs are implemented, though county level programs are prominent in some states. The logistic regression found that the odds of a TDR program being implemented in an area are associated with the political preferences, racial demographics, rural characteristics, housing ownership characteristics, and the farm density of a place.
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  • BenDor, Todd
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  • Master of City and Regional Planning
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  • Land Use and Environmental Planning
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2019
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