TDR
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- noun
- Specialized
- And even well-administered TDR programs generally stop short of dictating how protected land can be used.
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The development rights went into the county's TDR bank, where the Olive 8 developers bought them up in exchange for the ability to build bigger.
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The tool, called "transfer of development rights," or TDR for short, sounds wonky enough to scare off even the more serious urban-planning nerds among us.
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Of course, TDR is not without its critics.
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"TDR rides aimlessly on top of all that."
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Any TDR alumnus/ae wishing to become a contributor should email us at dartlog@dartreview.com.
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" While the MSEA program has used new technology like the TDR unit and the chlorophyll meter, many of the practices in the successful ridge tillage system are not new.
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That's when Gene Duvernoy, president of Forterra, a Seattle land-conservation group that helped create King County's TDR program, first heard of the concept.
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"TDR ... creates this revolving funding source, where if we buy those development rights and then sell them, we recoup the initial outlay, and we can use that money to buy additional land," explains Michael Murphy, manager of King County's TDR program.
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But this hesitation is about more than just NIMBYism: Anna Nissen, a design professional in Seattle who takes a critical eye to TDR, points out that upscale development -- like Olive 8, for example -- drives up property values and hastens gentrification.
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The city implemented a TDR program to allow developers to purchase unused development rights from landowners, encouraging land conservation.
Surface Forms
Etymology
TDR stands for transfer of development rights, which is like moving the 'right to build' from one piece of land to another. That's why a TDR lets landowners sell their permission to develop so they can protect their land.