Growing greener : putting conservation into local plans and ordinances
Title:
Growing greener : putting conservation into local plans and ordinances
Author:
Arendt, Randall, author.
ISBN:
9781559637428
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Physical Description:
xxv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Foreword: The Growing Greener Program -- Preface: Designing Land Development from a Bird's Perspective (Among Others) -- Introduction: How This Book Can Help You -- Context -- How Your Community Can Choose Its Own Future -- Comprehensive Plan Update -- Conservation Zoning Techniques -- Conservation Subdivisions: Application Documents, Design Process, and Conservation Land Design Standards -- Benefits of Conservation Planning and Design -- Examples of Subdivisions with Substantial Conservation Areas -- Design Exercise 1: Community-Wide Map of Potential Conservation Lands -- Design Exercise 2: Laying Out a Conservation Subdivision -- Frequently Asked Questions About Conservation Subdivision Design -- Model Comprehensive Plan Language -- Model Ordinance Language for Conservation Subdivisions.
Abstract:
"Growing Greener is an illustrated workbook that presents a new look at designing subdivisions while preserving green space and creating open space networks. The author offers a three-pronged strategy for shaping growth around a community's special natural and cultural features, demonstrating ways of establishing or modifying the municipal comprehensive plan, zoning ordinance, and subdivision ordinance to include a strong conservation focus.
It includes eleven case studies of actual conservation developments in nine states, and two exercises suitable for group participation."--BOOK JACKET.
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Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0631/99033885-d.html