Abhijeet Chavan

Abhijeet Chavan is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of Planetizen.

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Abhijeet Chavan is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of Planetizen and the executive producer of Planetizen Courses. He was also the chief technology officer of Urban Insight, Inc., the technology consulting firm that operates Planetizen. Abhijeet Chavan has over 20 years of technology consulting experience working with government, higher education, legal services, and non-profit clients. Abhijeet is the founder of OpenAdvocate and the creator of DLAW web platform, WriteClearly plain-language authoring tool and ReadClearly legal web glossaries. Abhijeet was named to the Fastcase 50 list of global legal innovators in 2017.

Abhijeet previously coordinated geographic information (GIS), software development, and data projects for the Imaging Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also served as the information technology coordinator for the East St. Louis Action Research Project, a cross-disciplinary initiative of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with residents and community groups in severely distressed urban areas.Abhijeet received his Master of Architecture (M. Arch) and Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A) degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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The <a href="http://www.rehearsal.uiuc.edu/">Environmental Rehearsal Studio</a> at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (<a href="http://www.uiuc.edu/">UIUC</a>) has been working on developing a Planning Data Model and a Planning Markup Language (<a href="http://www.rehearsal.uiuc.edu/projects/PML/">PML</a>) based on the eXtensible Markup Language (<a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a>) and the Geography Markup Language (<a href="http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2004-03-26-a.html">GML</a>) developed by the <a href="http://www.opengis.org/">Open GIS Consortium</a>.

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Using case studies and a national survey, this paper examines transfers of development rights (TDRs) and other market-based land preservation techniques like mitigation banking and density transfer fees.