There is a growing awareness that people have a connection to the land and the landscape, and they commonly react when they perceive that this connection to be in some way threatened with development, construction or other land-use changes. This reaction not uncommonly results in there ought to be a law response. And laws are enacted. Land-use regulations are therefore a yardstick or measure of concern by people for the landscape they occupy or wish to occupy. The regulations are federal, state and local in nature and have as a common feature the longer view over time of the incremental changes occurring to the land.
Land is the primary component of the developing industry.
As development proceeds, these transformations can serve to initiate the reaction there ought to be a law. Developers find themselves affected by the increasing rules, policies and regulations as legislators and agencies respond to public concern for the impact on the natural or cultural environment. Their concerns, or needs, for the land are just as strong, but stem from a very different source. Land is the resource, the commodity, from which they will generate their profits. The objective of profits has, relative to the longer view of planning, a much shorter view.