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- Commonwealth's land use : proceedings of a conferenceConference on the Commonwealth's Land Use (1975 : Charlottesville, Va.) (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Extension Division, 1977)A compilation of fifteen papers presented before a Conference on the Commonwealth's Land Use, plus one additional paper. This Virginia-oriented publication contains papers concerning the developing state-level land-use decisionmaking process, the function of state and local government in land-use decisions, the federal land-use concerns, the alternatives for administering state land-use policy, the development of land-use policy in the Commonwealth, the Virginia Supreme Court's decisions relating to land use, the impact of court decisions on growth management, the open-space regulations of some local governments, the land-use issues affecting development of low- and moderate income housing, the issues associated with interbasin water transfer, the status of areawide waste treatment control, and the American Law Institute's Model Land Development Code.
- Protecting and preserving rural land uses : issues, problems, institutions, proceedings of a conference(Extension Division, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1982-09)A Conference on Protecting and Preserving Rural Land Use in Virginia produced twelve papers, ten devoted to land-use policy and two to water policy. For the proceedings, the papers are presented in four subsets: land-use issues, case studies and methods, and water policy. The available supply of cropland, the impact of an expanding metropolis on an urbanfringe locality, and the way changes in culture impact land are discussed as issues. The case studies examine the transferable development rights program of Calvert County, Maryland; the development rights purchase program of Suffolk County, New York; and the development of differential taxation and tax-relief programs by states. Among the methods examined are zoning, transferable development rights, purchases of development rights, and timing and placement of utilities. The problems of changing water law from the Riparian Rights Doctrine to an alternative system and of implementing areawide water quality programs are discussed.
- Public policy on ground water quality protection : proceedings of a national conference, April 13-16, 1977 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityNational Conference on Public Policy on Ground Water Quality Protection (1977) (Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 1978)