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New Hope Corridor Open Space Master Plan <br />provisions. In such areas, a public agency could acquire the development rights for <br />the difference between the existing permitted densities and those permitted by the <br />rural buffer standards. <br />Implementation and Cost <br />The New Hope Creek open space corridor will be an undertaking with major benefits, <br />and implementing the Master Plan for the corridor will require much time and effort. <br />This report does not include a detailed statement of implementation priorities nor <br />would it have been appropriate for the Advisory Committee to do so. Rather, the <br />guidelines and criteria for creating and preserving the corridor should be included by <br />each affected city, county, and private agency in its program and work toward <br />execution of the Master Plan as expeditiously as is reasonable. <br />In addition, as noted earlier in the report, the establishment by inter -local agreement <br />of an Advisory Committee with the direct responsibility for the plan would be very <br />helpful. Such an agency could serve as the catalyst for implementation - -by worldng <br />to insure that the several elements of the Master Plan are kept in the budgets and <br />action plans of the appropriate jurisdictions and by providing guidance, direction, and <br />coordination for the operating departments. <br />Actual expenditures for accomplishing the creation of the New Hope open space <br />corridor should be budgeted as appropriate over a period of years by the respective <br />jurisdictions. <br />Discussions with landowners concerning the transfer of building rights and /or sale of <br />property need not and should not wait. Agreement to making such transfers does not <br />require an immediate exchange of funds, whether public funds or not, only public <br />willingness to act. Arranging now for such transfers, pending payment if payment <br />is to be offered, or for donation would both signify the public agency's good faith to <br />the landowner and do much to give reality to the open space objectives of this Master <br />Plan. Discussions between landowners and private conservation groups concerning <br />protection measures, including transfer of rights and donations, also need not and <br />should not wait. <br />14 <br />