Land Use & Zoning
Agricultural land in Hawaii is protected from development pressure by which state program that compensates farmers for voluntarily restricting land use?
AConservation district designation
BImportant Agricultural Lands (IAL) program✓ Correct
CUrban growth boundary
DTransfer of development rights (TDR)
Explanation
Hawaii's Important Agricultural Lands (IAL) program designates and protects the most productive agricultural lands from conversion to non-agricultural uses, offering incentives to qualifying landowners.
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Key Terms to Know
Zoning
Local government regulations that control land use by dividing areas into zones specifying permitted uses, building sizes, and densities.
VarianceOfficial permission to use land in a way that does not conform to the applicable zoning ordinance, granted by a zoning board when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship.
Eminent DomainThe power of government to take private property for public use, with the requirement to pay the owner just compensation.
Adverse PossessionA doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.
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