Green Infrastructure Plan

Kevin Kline offers a proposal for a “Green Infrastructure Plan” for the White Flint area. Hat tips to MoCo Civic Federation and Friends of Rock Creek:

Green Infrastructure Master Plan Goals:

• Identify the existing and desired contiguous network of natural areas of countywide significance;
• Identify and recommend effective mechanisms to preserve, protect, enhance, and restore the network;
• Support the desired development pattern identified in the county’s General Plan and facilitate smart growth;
• Complement, guide and enhance existing plans, programs, and environmental guidelines for development
• Realize forest protection goals;
• Provide a planning tool to help improve water quality;
• Increase the potential for state funding of open space preservation;
• Streamline environmental protection recommendations for community master plans; and,
• Facilitate a more streamlined and environmentally effective review and mitigation process for all public and private development projects

A Green Infrastructure Functional Master Plan will:

• Provide a policy guide for development and zoning decisions;
  Enable planners to consider important natural resources when reviewing development applications, transportation plans, and park acquisition; and,
  Help guide smart growth