land use assessments and assessments assessments mitigation plans and/or and/or activities are conducted in mitigation plans mitigation plans practice for are conducted in are rarely practice in some conducted in affecting land cases but not all, practice. use in nearly all e.g. not typically cases, including conducted for for agriculture. agricultural activities. 1.3 Process for 1.3.1 Consistent Process for Process for Process for 1 delivering delivering delivering delivering with land use authorizations authorizations authorizations authorizations plan/zoning for land use for land use for land use for land use activities and change change is clearly change is not changes respecting land defined by law clearly defined use plan/zoning for some types of by law. is clearly defined land use change by law for all but not all, types of land use and/or does not change. require the land use plan/zoning to be respected. 1.3.2 Depends Process for Process for Process for 1 delivering delivering delivering on impact authorizations authorizations authorizations assessment for for for affecting land affecting land affecting use requires use does not land use does taking into require taking not require account results into account taking into of impact results of impact account results assessment for assessment or of impact all types of land not for all types assessment and use change of land use is not for all change types of land use change. 1.3.3 Respects Land use change Land use change Land use 2 authorizations authorizations change land use respect the land respect the land authorizations use plan/zoning rarely respect
land use activities assessments and mitigation plans are conducted in practice for affecting land use in nearly all cases, including for agriculture. assessments and/or mitigation plans are conducted in practice in some cases but not all, e.g. not typically conducted for agricultural activities. assessments and/or mitigation plans are rarely conducted in practice. 1.3 Process for delivering authorizations for land use activities and changes 1.3.1 Consistent with land use plan/zoning Process for delivering authorizations for land use change respecting land use plan/zoning is clearly defined by law for all types of land use change. Process for delivering authorizations for land use change is clearly defined by law for some types of land use change but not all, and/or does not require the land use plan/zoning to be respected. Process for delivering authorizations for land use change is not clearly defined by law. 1 1.3.2 Depends on impact assessment Process for delivering authorizations for affecting land use requires taking into account results of impact assessment for all types of land use change Process for delivering authorizations for affecting land use does not require taking into account results of impact assessment or not for all types of land use change Process for delivering authorizations for affecting land use does not require taking into account results of impact assessment and is not for all types of land use change. 1 1.3.3 Respects land use Land use change authorizations respect the land use plan/zoning Land use change authorizations respect the land Land use change authorizations rarely respect 2
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