“Absent these two programs, Stafford would never have been able to preserve land and open spaces as aggressively as it has. “PDRs and TDRs are essential tools we need to manage growth in a fast-growing county like Stafford,” said Milde. “It’s really heartening to have an area as large as Crow’s Nest protected from development, especially in a fast-growing county like Stafford,” noted former Aquia District Supervisor Paul Milde.Īs Supervisor, Milde led the fight to have Stafford adopt both the purchase-of-development-rights (PDR) program and the TDR program as essential tools to control development and preserve environmentally sensitive areas.Ī PDR program aims to compensate landowners, allowing the government to purchase the development rights to land at an agreed-upon price to ensure the land will not be parceled for development.Ī TDR program allows a landowner to forgo developing land in exchange for being allowed to increase the development density within a designated Urban Development Area (UDA) where urban services are available.īoth programs are entirely voluntary on the landowner or developer, and neither is part of the eminent domain process. The immediate proximity of the land to Crow’s Nest dramatically increases the preserved area, bringing the total land removed from development on the Crow’s Nest peninsula to over 4,000 acres. Using the program, Stafford preserved over 1,300 acres of land previously slated for development adjacent to the Crow’s Nest, the county’s natural gem. Two large tracts of land marked for the development of hundreds of homes will remain open space, thanks to the TDR program. In 2015, after years of discussion and debate by the Stafford County Board of Supervisors, the Board amended the county’s comprehensive plan to implement a transfer-of-development-rights (TDR) program.īy a 4-to-3 vote, a divided Board of Supervisors approved a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program for Aquia District-only pilot, the home of Crow’s Nest Natural Area Preserve.ĭespite being restricted to a fraction of the county, the TDR program shows impressive results six years after its approval. Review by Kozo: Takashi Miike scored his biggest box office hit ever with manga adaptation Crows: Episode 0, and its not hard to see why.Unlike the directors more celebrated, controversial, and just plain disturbing works, Crows is resolutely commercial and succeeds handily at being so, delivering a fine mix of edgy comedy and crowd-pleasing comic book roughhousing.