With annual population development...

With annual population development at historically high rates, many U cities and counties face the increasingly difficult task of maintaining a high quality of life in urban areas. unfolding pressures and sprawl are gobbling up unclose spaces and landscapes that make communities the couple healthy and livable, forcing municipal planners and managers to make rushed, sometimes poorly planned attempts to save valuable land for open space and parks.

In mostly cases, burgeoning cities and counties rely upon land use regulations as their unclose space protection tool of choice. Unfortunately, this approach is fraught with difficulties, and render free of access space protection requires more foresight than a regulatory approach alone can provide. Too ofttimes skyrocketing land prices can make regulation politically untenable and outright purchase prohibitive forward a large scale.

An alternative tool for expand space protection involves the use of growth agreements. In these cases, cities or counties agree to approve disclosures ...