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4. Adopt Criteria for Selecting or <br />Qualifying Sending Areas <br />Should Orange County use <br />criteria (historic areas / sites, high <br />growth pressure locations, water <br />supply watershed, wetlands, etc.) <br />to modify the number of TDR <br />credits attached to a Sending <br />Area property instead of naming <br />the entire unincorporated, non - <br />Receiving Area part of the <br />County as an eligible Sending <br />Area? <br />5. Define a Minimum Acreage as <br />a Pre - Condition for Eligibility <br />as a Sending Area <br />Should Orange County use <br />minimum acreages of contiguous <br />property to help determine <br />eligible Sending Areas or accept <br />no minimum area size? <br />❑ = Recommended Course of Action <br />Orange County TDR Implementation Planning <br />• Lose the sense of <br />fairness that all are <br />included if the entire <br />county isn't eligible <br />• Reduces the size of <br />the "market" of <br />potential easement <br />sellers <br />More complicated to <br />explain and <br />understand <br />Could create some <br />property owner <br />frustration among <br />those "in" the sending <br />area boundary but not <br />meeting the additional <br />criteria <br />