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support added density. In spite of those challenges, TDR zoning can work. For example, in Montgomery County, adjacent to Washington D.C., TDR zoning has protected 40,000 acres in 20 years, achieving half the areaβs farmland preservation goal without any public spending. Serenbe, Georgia, a master-planned farm community in the newly created city of Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, on the edge of Atlanta, is a model for the successful integration of farming and development. It used TDRs to protect existing farms and the farming way of life by letting a conservancy organization oversee the purchase of development rights.
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