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Homestead Airport Zoning Ordinance



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What is TDR?

According to most definitions, Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) is a market-based mechanism that promotes responsible growth, while conserving areas such as safety zones, prime agricultural areas and environmentally sensitive lands.  It is designed to steer growth -- not to limit or stop development. 

Through individual, voluntary transactions, development rights are typically transferred from our region’s privately owned farmland which in our case is most of the area inside the APZ-1 and APZ-2, forestland and natural areas (sending sites) to areas that can accommodate additional growth (receiving sites); although, at times the “receiving sites” remain open and flexible in order to better respond to future development trends. Landowners in sending areas receive compensation for giving up their right to develop, while developers in receiving areas often pay for the right to a bonus in the receiving area, such as additional  height or density than would otherwise be allowed.  When development rights are removed from a parcel, a conservation easement is placed on the sending site.