One of the integral and most controversial parts of the 200-page 2050 Plan to zone the county to keep up with the growth officials expect is its section on “transferrable development rights.” It’s designed to help residents of the eastern side of Newton County financially benefit from the possible down-zoning of their rural properties.Thursday night, the plan’s expert on TDRs, Royce Hanson of Maryland, spoke about them for nearly an hour with a raucous crowd gathered in Mansfield, the heart of the plan’s rural and conservation districts. “I think what jurisdictions around the country have