Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Project
CAGIS is providing GIS modeling expertise for Orange County's (NC) study
of the feasibility of a Transfer of Development Rights program. Multi-criteria
models to help define "sending" and "receiving" areas are being created that
will assist planners in identifying areas of the county that are good candidates
to be preserved in their current undeveloped state. This could be done
by transferring their development rights to other areas so they can be developed
more intensely. Typically, eight to ten GIS layers are used in each
model. The layers are combined to produce a composite score that reflects
how many important criteria are present at each location in the county. These
models can easily and quickly be adjusted or tuned to produce alternative
scenarios of TDR patterns.
For more information on this project please contact:
Paul Smith, Technical Director
Center for Applied GISc, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
psmith@uncc.edu
(704) 687-4261
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