Colleagues:
A new Dane County group working on local food system issues is looking for educational materials for use in educating citizens and local government officials on the topic of transfer of development rights. I'd appreciate your forwarding to me examples of any such materials you may have or use, or pointing me toward same.
Thanks, in advance, for your help.
Best regards and Happy Holidays!
Bill
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Bill:
Mike Koles has done a lot on this subject.
I used an old teaching method. My tag board has faded, so you may want to make your own rather than have me send you my materials.
I used two square of tag board on which I taped on each of them pictures of trees, minerals, hunters, corn, sand and gravel dump truck, people walking, a store and a house.
On the backside of each side I taped three houses.
I used the side with the pictures of trees, minerals, hunters, corn, a dump truck, people walking, a store, and house to explain that a property owner has a buddle of rights that go along with their property and the can either sell or retain individual rights to others. For example, they can sell the mineral rights (and then I pull that off the board), they can rent the land for hunting (I pull that off the board), and so on with examples of timber usage, crop harvesting, non-metallic mining, housing development, commercial development, trespassing and access to the land. The other board I use to show that I can hold on to the mineral rights or the development rights and sell the rest.
After there is consensus that they understand the bundle of rights that go with a property, I use the other sides with the three houses to explain the transfer of development rights. I explain by saying that the squares of tag board represent properties of about the same size. According to local zoning or some other restriction each property can be subdivided into three residential lots or have three residences built on it, represented by the three houses taped to the board. How transfer of development rights works is that a property owner in a designated area can transfer his right to subdivide his property for one, two, or three houses to someone in another designated area so that property owner can now subdivide his property for four, five, or six residences or build four, five or six residences. The first property owner can not build as many residences as before because he transferred them to the second property owner. Using the tag board I show this by taking one or two houses off of one board and transfer them or tape them on the second board. This way everyone can see that the first property from which the development rights were transferred only has one house on it (illustrating the right to build one house) and the second property to which the development rights were transferred has five houses on it (illustrating the right to build five houses).
Patrick Nehring, AICP
Community Agent
UW-Extension Waushara County
PO Box 487
209 S Ste Marie Street
Wautoma, WI 54982
(920) 787-0416
www.uwex.edu/ces/cty/waushara
For some reason, I didn’t get this original post to the “all” list. I would start with the Center for Land Use Education at Stevens Point. I did remember this publication that they produced: www.uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter/pdffiles/implementation/TDR.pdf
Frankly, much of the research points to some of the examples right here in Dane County and I am sure the County Planning and Development office would be a great resource.
These resources at Cornell are also quite good: http://government.cce.cornell.edu/doc/html/Transfer%20of%20Development%20Rights%20Programs.htm
If you get a lot of responses, I would be happy to post them on the
Andy
Professor Andrew B. Lewis
Community Development Specialist
610 Langdon Street, Room 328
Madison, WI 53703-1104
608-263-1432
andy.lewis@uwex.edu
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/andylewis.cfm
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