RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Landscape Sensitive Planning: A Benefit/Cost Assessment
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 67
OP 75
DO 10.3368/lj.1.2.67
VO 1
IS 2
A1 Sandhu, Harjinder S.
A1 Foster, John H.
YR 1982
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/1/2/67.abstract
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.