But location, type and overall development density are much more important.

The developers said they had voluntarily agreed to lower the development densities.

Houston does, however, restrict development densities and mandate parking, even though specific land uses are not regulated.

Instead, she said, the purpose was to increase development density where appropriate and expand available sites for the "inclusionary housing" program.

Meanwhile, town officials are considering a rezoning plan aimed at reducing development densities and limiting the rate of growth.

These studies were used to establish appropriate zoning and development densities for all the principal undeveloped hillside areas within the city.

The area surrounding Sandton station has been divided into six management areas, which cover land use, development density, and pedestrian accessibility.

Increasing development density has the advantage of making mass transport systems, district heating and other community facilities (schools, health centres, etc.) more viable.

For these reasons, sustainable urbanism requires minimum development densities roughly four times higher than two dwelling units per acre.

The easement also reduces the potential development density on the rest of the property to four units from 12 units on about 7.5 acres.

The value of each parcel is increased by adjacency and access to the conserved land, which allows development density significantly below that allowed by zoning.

Eventually the city retained an environmental consultant to prepare an Environmental Impact Report on alternative development schemes and development densities.

Concentrating development density in and around transit stops and corridors maximizes people's willingness to walk and thus reduces car ownership and use.

The PTAL is used as a development planning tool in London, to determine both permitted parking standards and development densities.

The Democratic incumbent, Tony Avella, has led the effort in the City Council to reduce development density in the district, beginning in Bayside.

Doing so allows a community to transfer development density and uses from areas it wants to preserve to those it judges better suited for growth - in keeping with the state's Development and Redevelopment Plan.

These include land acquisition, decreased development density through zoning, clustering development on parcels so that open space remains and transferring development rights from parcels inside Special Groundwater Protection Areas to parcels outside these areas.

He urges spending $1 billion to buy land to prevent polluting development in the There's no question that the Catskill watershed needs improved regulation of existing sewage plants and other stream polluters, combined with controls on future development densities.

The council annexed the Flemington district in 1892 and in doing so substantially increased the number of residents living in the Municipality as development density was higher in the more working class Flemington than in Strathfield.

"The success of that site depends on high development density and reliance on mass transit," said Boris S. Pushkarev, vice president of research at the Regional Plan Association, a group that has pushed for coordinated waterfront development.

"The development application was turned down," Mr. Weingart explained, "because we weren't given enough information by the developer about storm water runoff, water quality, vegetation, traffic, endangered and threatened species, development density and the justification for development at all."

Storms are currently rated by estimating how soon a comparable storm is likely to occur again or by comparing property damage, a somewhat arbitrary standard that can be skewed by local property values, development density and other factors unrelated to the weather.

The Pembina Institute's analysis of the Growth Plan has suggested that the minimum greenfield development density target of 50 residents plus jobs per hectare is barely sufficient to justify provincial investment in public transit infrastructure in these areas.

Mary Hardy, Piermont's clerk and treasurer, said that in addition to agreeing to a development density of no more than six units per acre and a design compatible with the village's historic architecture, the developers also bought the town a new fire truck.