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Skagit Regional TDR Project

Learn about the Transfer of Development Rights mechanism in Skagit County, supporting sustainable urban planning by transferring growth from specified areas. Discover the benefits, current policies, and key considerations for TDR implementation. Explore potential sending and receiving areas, the grant, advisory committee, and local partners involved in the project. Get insights into the project phases, tasks, and future applications of TDR in Skagit County.

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Skagit Regional TDR Project

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  1. Skagit Regional TDR Project An Introduction to Transfer of Development Rights

  2. What is TDR? Transfer of Development Rights A market-based mechanism that enables voluntary transfers of growth from designated sending areas to designated receiving areas

  3. Why Consider TDR Now in Skagit? • Envision Skagit Citizen Committee recommendation • Ongoing Commissioner interest • Growing number of TDR programs regionally to learn from

  4. Dwellings 1900

  5. Dwellings 1950

  6. Dwellings 2010

  7. 2060 build-out projection – current policies

  8. County’s population projected to increase 100,000 by 2060

  9. Skagit TDR Grant • From Washington State Department of Commerce • Competitively awarded • Funding source: National Estuary Program, Puget Sound Watershed Protection and Restoration Grant

  10. Puget Sound, clean water and TDR? • Protecting working farm and forest lands • Protecting floodplain and other sensitive areas • Encouraging growth in existing cities • Implementing improved stormwater solutions Key drivers of watershed health include:

  11. TDR Advisory Committee 15 members • Various sectors potentially involved in TDR transactions • Two at-large members: Skagit residents, urban or rural • Will provides policy and technical input, assist with public outreach

  12. Local partners in submitting grant: • Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland • Skagit Island Counties Builders Association • Skagit Land Trust • City of Burlington

  13. TDR Staff, Consultant & Advisor Team • Kirk Johnson - project manager • Linda Christensen: grant administration • Mark Personius – planning consultant • Taylor Carroll, Forterra: TDR technical advisor • Heather Ballash, Washington State Regional TDR Program manager • Economic consultant: to be selected

  14. Key Questions to Consider • Is market demand strong enough to drive a TDR program? • In the current economy • Once the economy improves

  15. Key Questions Are the cities willing to serve as receiving areas? • What’s in it for them?

  16. Key Questions • Can TDR complement, and not harm, existing conservation programs including Farmland Legacy?

  17. Project Timeframe • Now through end of 2013 • Study and analysis of TDR potential in Skagit County • BCC to make threshold decision by end of 2013 • Move forward with TDR program, or not? • If “Yes,” legislative consideration of TDR program would occur in 2014

  18. Project Phases • Phase 1: Consider Skagit TDR Program • Phase 2: Burlington Commercial Redevelopment Analysis • And Burlington’s potential as TDR receiving area

  19. Phase 1 Tasks: TDR 1. Public outreach: Ongoing • 2. Study existing TDR programs and Skagit County goals • 3. Identify potential sending and receiving areas

  20. Phase 1 Tasks, continued 4. TDR Market analysis 5. Consider TDR structure 6. Draft TDR program and consider adoption

  21. Phase 2 Tasks • City of Burlington: • 1. Explore Commercial Core redevelopment opportunities • 2. Consider LID stormwater and open space planning options

  22. Other potential TDR applications • Future Industrial lands Other sending areas: Other receiving areas: • Areas with piped water • Bayview Ridge UGA • Rural Villages

  23. TDR concept at work in Skagit County! • Burlington Agricultural Heritage Density Credit Program • Sale of density credits funds Farmland Legacy Ag-NRL purchases

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