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
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