These approaches are moratoriums on development, tougher environmental restrictions on developable land and impact fees on new housing.
Since only a small amount of developable land is released each year by councils, developers compete entirely at the point when they are buying land, rather than at the point when they are selling the homes they build.
Up to 50 of these hundreds of developable sites will be allocated to the chosen developer partners, who will be selected by November and number between three and six.
This is no secret as there are references to 'increasing net developable area' and 'increasing the land available for development' and to 'unblocking' larger housing developments in government documents.
With the state's population expected to grow by 750,000 and 1 million people by the next generation, planners believe that development pressure will eat up all the state's developable land.
Mr. Kalikow is no longer active as a developer, while Mr. Solow controls one of the last developable sites on the East Side of Midtown, a nine-acre stretch south of 42nd Street.
And unlike markets like Atlanta and the Inland Empire in California, Long Island did not experience a rush of new warehouse development before the recession, primarily because of the shortage of developable land.
A lot of development sprawls outward instead of upward, we're running out of developable land and housing is at a premium.
Then there is litigation over a 200-acre parcel called the Patrick Farm, one of the town's largest developable pieces of property, which has been rezoned to allow dense multifamily development miles from the current high-density population zones.
The transport body's approach to making money from its developable land assets has been be to enter into joint ventures with developers to build housing and other things - schools, shops, medical facilities - on it, enabling TfL to take a share of the profits.
However, a particularly worrying, and seemingly overlooked aspect of the proposals in the Green Paper, is the statement that 'the covenant could be released if, through a planning decision, it was considered developable land.' This would mean that biodiversity offset sites could be developed in the future with no certainty of any compensation.
