10-10-1: STATEMENT OF PURPOSES:
To protect the agricultural, natural, and scenic qualities of open lands, to enhance sites and areas of special character or special historical, cultural, aesthetic or economic interest or value, and to enable and encourage flexibility of design and careful management of land in recognition of land as a basic and valuable natural resource. The preservation and maintenance of these resources will be ensured by encouraging countywide land use planning through the transfer of development rights from parcels suitable for preservation to properties meeting the criteria for development as receiving parcels. (Ord. 2006-06, 6-29-2006)