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Motivating Developers To Preserve Open Space

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
13 March 2001 - 5:00am

Zoning strategies can provide incentives to developers who preserve open space.

"In the past two weeks, one community has passed - and another is considering - zoning changes that reward builders with 'bonus' lots for plotting homesites in clusters and dedicating larger tracts for open space.In addition, a state agency has issued a model ordinance guide for other communities wishing to do the same.Bonus lots give developers an economic incentive to build cluster, or conservation, developments, a relatively new technique for preserving open spaces used as an alternative to large-lot requirements."

Full Story: Motivating developers to maintain countryside
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 10, 2001
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