Smart Climate Action Through Transfer of Development Rights
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Learning Outcomes
- Understand how TDR-generated preservation promotes compact, energy-efficient communities, mitigates greenhouse gas emissions through carbon sequestration, and adapts to climate change by reducing exposure to wildfires, floods, and sea-level rise.
- Learn how TDR programs are using market forces — instead of tax revenues — to form sprawl-curbing greenbelts; protect forests, farms, and wetlands as carbon sinks; and decrease exposure to growing hazards.
- Discover how to create successful TDR programs using time-tested principles that generate demand, motivate voluntary participation, and customize components to fit local real estate values and community characteristics.
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Learn how to use TDR to implement plans involving environmental protection, growth management, urban design, green infrastructure, redevelopment, and preservation in ways that mitigate/sequester greenhouse gases and adapt to growing climate-change threats while achieving other essential community goals.
Disadvantaged communities are disproportionally harmed by pollution, heat, storms, flooding, and other climate change impacts. TDR uses zoning and market forces to cost-effectively shift growth into areas where development can be safely accommodated by harnessing private-sector profits rather than tax-generated resources that can be scarce in economically challenged communities.