PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Harjinder S. Sandhu
AU  - John H. Foster
TI  - Landscape Sensitive Planning: A Benefit/Cost Assessment
AID  - 10.3368/lj.1.2.67
DP  - 1982 Sep 21
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 67--75
VI  - 1
IP  - 2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/67.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/67.full
AB  - Planning for urban growth using a landscape and resource sensitive model is compared to conventional planning in a case study town. The landscape sensitive approach minimizes the loss of resource values, yet accommodates urban growth. In the case study, the losses avoided in planning for a 50 percent increase in population, using a landscape sensitive approach as compared to conventional planning, were valued at about $9,000,000, far exceeding the extra cost of landscape sensitive planning, about $70,000. The computer program permits calculation of the extra losses resulting from a community-imposed land use constraint such as prevention of development on prime agricultural land.