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By LOU HATTER
and MARY K. BLEWITT
Arundel Newspaper* Staff Writers
A bill to allow Virginia counties to use transferable development rights (TDR) to manage growth is gathering support in the General Assembly, according to Del. , Leslie L. Byrne (D-38th).
The Fairfax County delegate, who chairs a joint House and Senate Committee on Growth Management Tools, spoke about TDRs to a gathering of Rappahannock County residents on Jan. 3. She called them “a simple concept — it’s the implementation that is difficult.”
TDRs are being studied as one of several innovative approaches to the increasingly complex,, zoning problems that confront localities on the fringes of Virginia’s metropolitian areas.
The concept involves the separation of the development rights from a particular physical parcel of property, then transferring those development rights to another parcel of land in a different location. In that way, growth can be focused in areas that are already designated for higher density, where services are either already in place or are planned for future expansion, y?
That focused development, according to Del. Byrne, avoids the kind of “suburban sprawl” that has created a nightmare of insufficient services, gridlocked traffic and overburdened schools throughouifthe
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