Amendment of Land Swaps to Consolidate Forest Preserve

Once the idea of a constitutional amendment process to create greater flexibility and enable new ideas on forest preservation got traction, the proponents went for more than just a community land bank. The new process enables swaps of significant acreage that have the effect of increasing total Forest Preserve acreage while at the same time improving its overall integrity, giving up fragments that are near towns and developed areas anyway. Creation of larger contiguous tracts is the goal.