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<br />Purchase of Development Rights, CDFS-1263-98 <br /> <br />Page 4 of5 <br /> <br />The establishment of a PDR program often begins at the local level, accompanied by enabling and/or <br />funding legislation at the state level. An agricultural preserve board is usually a county-wide <br />organization consisting of a few members of the community who act as volunteers on the board. <br />Membership may be by appointment by elected officials, such as county commissioners, and should <br />reflect the makeup of the community, with representatives from agriculture, industry, etc. The board is <br />in charge of reviewing applications of landowners who wish to sell development rights, obtaining <br />appraisals, prioritizing parcels, negotiating agreements, and ensuring that deed restrictions are enforced. <br /> <br />It is up to the members of the board to determine how to operate the program so that the public gains the <br />most from its investment. The PDR programs which seem to have had the most success have been those <br />where the objective has been to use this tool to create large contiguous areas with permanently preserved <br />open space and farmland as opposed to selecting individual parcels piecemeal. This type of strategy has <br />several advantages. One is that it allows for a "critical mass" of farms which have the potential to <br />preserve agriculture as a viable industry. If the number of farms in an area becomes too small, there is <br />not enough demand for agricultura1 supplies (fertilizer, equipment, etc.) to sustain the industry. Another <br />advantage to this approach is that the preservation of large contiguous areas maintains open space and <br />the sense of place that many Americans believe are the goals which are most appropriate for farmland <br />protection programs. <br /> <br />Suggested Reading <br /> <br />Buist, R., C. Fischer, J. Michos and A. Tegene, 1995. Purchase of Development Rights and the <br />Economics of Easements. Economic Report No. 718, U.S.D.A.: Washington DC. <br /> <br />Daniels, T., 1991. "The Purchase of Development Rights: Preserving Agricultural Land and Open <br />Space," Journal of the American Planning Association, 57 (Autumn):421-431. <br /> <br />Daniels, T. and D. Bowers, 1997. Holding Our Ground: Protecting American Farms and Farmland, <br />Island Press: Washington, DC. <br /> <br />Duncan, M. 1984. "Toward a Theory of Broad-Based Planning for the Preservation of Agricultural <br />Land," Natural Resources Journal, 24 (January):6I-135. <br /> <br />Kinsley, M.l 1997. Economic Renewal Guide: A Collaborative Process for Sustainable Community <br />Development. Rocky Mountain Institute: Snowmass, CO. . <br /> <br />Kline, l and D. Wichlens, 1994. "Using Referendum Data to Characterize Public Support for <br />Purchasing Development Rights to Farmland," Land Economics, 70 (May):223-233. <br /> <br />You can read about purchase of development rights on the world wide web! <br /> <br />http://www.farm1andinfo.org <br /> <br />http://www.ypsil.comlcoalit.htmI <br /> <br />http://www.consrv.ca.gov/oJc/alspnet.html <br /> <br />All educational programs conducted by Ohio State University Extension are available to clientele on a nondiscriminatory <br /> <br />http:// ohioline. osu. edulcd- factll263 .html <br /> <br />11/2/2004 <br />