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Public Service Announcement <br />Date: March 16, 2005 <br />From: Monica C. Evans <br />To: Community Churches <br />Subject: Orange County Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Task <br />Force <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners is recruiting citizen volunteers far <br />the Orange County Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Task Force. This task <br />force will evaluate the feasibility of establishing a TDR program in all or portions <br />of the county that addresses: <br />1. Sustainably balancing rural and urban areas, <br />2, Directing growth and development away from important natural and <br />cultural resources and toward areas more able to support municipal <br />services and urban densities, <br />3. Providing working farms with an alternative income potential, and <br />4, Linking zoning densities to comprehensive plan gcals and policies. <br />Possible issues that Task Force members should discuss might include the <br />following: <br />• Multi jurisdictional program possibly involving Chapel Hill, Carrboro, <br />and/or Hillsborough, <br />• Is the public purchase of a conservation easement equivalent to the public <br />purchase of a property's development rights? <br />• Multiple owners in a single sending zone? <br />• Density means the number of development rights originating from an <br />individual parcel, <br />• When a development right is used, how shall it be extinguished? <br />• Development rights certificates cannot be transferred into another area <br />defined as a sending zone. <br />• The nature of the easement placed on the sending zone parcel after <br />transfer should allow staff to resolve any zoning ordinance violation (i,e., <br />derelict structures, junk and debris, multiple residential structures, and the <br />like) before recording the easement, <br />• Equity of price of densities purchased weighted against the value of the <br />densities transferred. <br />• Design guidelines for the receiving zone should be established. <br />• Establishment of a planning management procedure to transfer and to <br />develop property rights. <br />• TDR certificates. <br />• Is down zoning needed, and if so, where? <br />• Will rezoning be required or can this be accomplished administratively? <br />