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Equity Issues in Farmland Preservation

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dc.contributor.authorHalich, Gregory Stewarten
dc.contributor.committeechairRandolph, Johnen
dc.contributor.committeememberRichardson, Jesse J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberHammett, A. L. (Tom)en
dc.contributor.departmentUrban Affairs and Planningen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:57:36Zen
dc.date.adate1999-04-27en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:57:36Zen
dc.date.issued1999-04-20en
dc.date.rdate2000-04-27en
dc.date.sdate1999-04-25en
dc.description.abstractThe literature dealing with farmland preservation has concentrated on program effectiveness and legal aspects. Equity issues, and to a lesser extent political issues have been neglected in these discussions. This major paper discusses equity issues involved with this topic: Basically who benefits and who is adversely effected by implementing farmland preservation measures. It relates these equity issues to both the legal and political issues of farmland preservation. It is argued in this major paper that to understand any one of these issues, all three must be fully addressed. The paper starts out by describing the following farmland preservation techniques: Exclusive agricultural zoning, large-lot zoning, fixed-area based zoning, slide-scale zoning, cluster zoning, Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs), Purchase of Development Rights (PDRs), Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs), conservation easements, Smart Growth programs, use-value taxation, and agricultural districting. It also describes their relative effectiveness. The next section describes the equity, legal, and political issues and relates these issues to the preservation techniques previously described. This section is followed by a conclusion that brings the previous two sections together and comes up with a final effectiveness rating for each farmland preservation technique.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Urban and Regional Planningen
dc.identifier.otheretd-042599-183128en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-042599-183128/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/37088en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartfrmpr2.PDFen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectfarmland preservationen
dc.subjectfarmland protectionen
dc.titleEquity Issues in Farmland Preservationen
dc.typeMajor paperen
thesis.degree.disciplineUrban Affairs and Planningen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Urban and Regional Planningen

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