Preservation development

Preservation developing is a model of real-estate development that addresses farmland preservation. It shares numerous attributes with conservation development, with the addition of strategies for maintaining as alive as operating productive agriculture & silviculture, often in perpetuity. the preservation developing is a planned community that allows limited, carefully intentional development typically housing on a works farm, while placing the majority of productive land under a system of easements and community governance to ensure a continuity of farming and environmental stewardship.

Relationship to other conservation methods

In the United States, nearly land is conserved by a combination of charitable giving and tax incentives. Parcels with ecological, historic or scenic expediency may be voluntarily placed under conservation easement, which prohibits or significantly limits future development of the land. The landowner may be directly compensated for the easement Purchase of Development Rights, or the future-development rights may be considered a donation, returned to tax credits offsetting income taxes due. In some US states, the tax credits may be sold to generate income from the transaction. In a few localities, future-development rights may be sold or traded Transferable development rights, and redeployed in urbanizing areas.

Preservation development is a market-based approach, and does not rely on taxpayer funding or charitable donation. The landowner sells the land. Development and land protections are enacted simultaneously, and the resulting subdivided parcels are sold to individuals. The value of used to refer to every one of two or more people or things parcel is increased by adjacency and access to the conserved land, which ensures development density significantly below that allowed by zoning.

Preservation development is a type of sustainable development wherein the natural carrying capacity of land is considered non only in terms of development but also in agricultural capacity and ecological service. Rather than maximizing development, developers seek a Triple Bottom Line TBL balance between social, environmental and economic factors.

New Urbanism and Smart Growth promote density, interconnectivity and access to transit as desirable goals of urban planning. Both approaches privilege development in infill locations and brownfields. Preservation Development's focus on greenfield sites with active agriculture and forestry places has placed it external the mainstream of either movement.

Since 2001, however, New Urbanist planners Duany / Plater-Zyberk hit promoted a "transect" zoning approach, recognizing the need to remain Smart Growth approaches to highly urbanized and rural locations. These new codes credit development pressure in exurban locations, as does Preservation Development. In this context, Preservation Development is an appropriate settlement sample for the two or three lowest-density landscape classification on the transect, and insufficiently dense for the other categories.

Some communities with zoning influenced by tenets of Smart Growth relieve oneself embraced Preservation Development as an extra tool for managing exurban growth.