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In Taiwan, as a result of using zoning to manage and to control urban land use has made strong disproportionalities in the interests among the landlords whose lands are in the different land use districts. The landlords of the public facilities lands ad hoc use their lands more limited vis-a- vis the landlords of the building lands, and the compensations of expropriation are much lower than the market values of the public facilities lands. Simultaneously, local governments'' universal financial straits make the local governments be still more unable to expropriate the public facilities'' lands. These not only damage the landlords'' interests but also lower the urban environmental qualities. The current institutions have been unable to cope with the deep- seated problems and the new problems as to maintain open space, preserve historic sites or landmarks, and protect farmlands, etc. Many domestic scholars and experts recommend "Transferable Development Rights"(TDR)to overcome the current difficulties. First, this study reviewed the domestic and foreign literature about TDR, and extensively analyzed the discussions about practicing TDR in Taiwan, and suggested specific countermeasures for the discussions. The dimensions of the discussions analyzed included politics, society, economics, rule of law, environment, administration, and finance. At the same time, it also compared the differences of TDR programs in the different practicing conditions. Second, this study established the basic structure of using TDR to obtain the public facilities lands according to the consequences before. Furthermore, it also designed a short-term TDR program under the basic structure. Finally, it selected a detail plan district in Taipei City to simulately operate the short-term TDR program. Reviewing this study, we will find that using TDR to obtain the public facilities lands in the urban region with higher growth will be easy to aggravate the environments of the districts receiving development rights on the contrary. In the lower growth or undevelopment region, however, TDR programs suggested by this study will not come across those problems. In other words, we believe that using TDR to obtain the public facilities lands, even to maintain open space, to preserve historic sites or landmarks, and so forth, will be more potential in Taiwan.
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