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A community land trust or (CLT) is a nonprofit corporation that holds land on behalf of a place-based community, while serving as the long-term steward for affordable housing, community gardens, civic buildings, commercial spaces and other community assets on behalf of a community.
John Emmeus Davis (born 1949) is an American scholar and city planner who has advanced the worldwide understanding and development of community land trusts. [1] [2] His professional practice has focused on assisting new community land trusts (CLTs), supporting the growth of older CLTs, and helping municipal agencies, Habitat for Humanity affiliates, and other nonprofit organizations to add ...
The Alliance performs a National Land Trust Census that keeps track of the land protected by local and regional land trusts. [10] The last [ when? ] Census, conducted in 2003, reported that these trusts have protected almost 9.4 million acres (38,000 km 2 ) of land in the United States , double the 4.7 million acres (19,000 km 2 ) recorded in ...
The organization bought the land in 2017 but wasn’t able to develop it as an 18-home project until the city of Bellingham amended its Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinance last year.
Also operates the Sandy Lake Indian Reservation in Aitkin County, with off-reservation trust land and other holdings in Atkin, Crow Wing, Kanabec, Morrison, and Otter Tail Counties. Prairie Island Indian Community: Sioux: Goodhue: 310 Red Lake Indian Reservation: Ojibwe
The Land Trust is a British charity, based in Warrington, Cheshire, which owns or manages open spaces restored from derelict land for public benefit.Its vision is "to improve the quality of people’s lives by creating sustainable, high quality green spaces that deliver environmental, social and economic benefits".
The Minneapolis park system has been called the best-designed, best-financed, and best-maintained in America. [4] Minneapolis was rated the #1 park system in the country for the sixth year in a row by The Trust for Public Land in 2018 and again in 2020. [5] [6] In 2024, it won the National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Parks and Recreation ...
As of 2021, there were over 1,300 conservation land trusts in the United States, with 446 of these accredited by the Land Trust Accreditation Commission. [1] Some North American conservation land trusts: The Black Family Land Trust [5] Blue Mountain Land Trust [6] Center for Natural Lands Management [7] Crooked Creek Conservancy [4]