developmental rights and land use as a collective right of the community

Communities often look to the development of open land into commercial or residential uses as a means of increasing the tax base and zoning as a means of assigning development rights to a community.  Often public and private land uses share the same objectives of management.  Please present the both sides of the issues relevant to developmental rights and land use as a collective right of the community that a potential developer must purchase and/or be given.