Farmington Valley Biodiversity Project

1. Farmington Valley Biodiversity Project Implementation

2. How do we use the FVBP to protect our natural legacy? CHANGE HOW WE DO THINGS (Behavioral) • Focus land protection efforts on Primary Conservation Areas (PCAs) • Changes of development procedures and site review • Plan at larger scale • Prioritize preservation areas

3. How do we use the FVBP to protect our natural legacy? CHANGE WHAT WE CAN DO (Structural) • Amend POCD to address FVBP • Subdivision/zoning changes that focus on Primary and Secondary Conservation Areas • Require applicant to fund third party review

4. How do we use the FVBP to protect our natural legacy? WORK AT MULTIPLE SCALES • Parcel specific information • Town wide planning • Landscape/ecosystem

5. Planning to Action Handbook • Planning and legal background • Summarized by FRWA as Action Points Should be used as a guide for planning, conservation and development.

6. Action Point: • Acquire and maintain appropriate natural resource data.

7. Action Point: • Plan at an ecosystem scale

8. Action Point: • Update POCD A roadmap to achieve conservation goals.

9. Action Point: • Align regulations with POCD goals and policies • Implement zoning techniques to conserve ecologically sensitive and important areas

10. Action Point: • Expand/Refine Open Space Programs • Separate Land Use Commissions

11. Action Point: • Adopt specific ecological review standards for applicants • Adopt provision for applicants to fund outside expert review • Provide for pre-application review process

12. Action Point: • Incorporate BMP’s and BDP’s into standard application review and permitting • Reduce use of mitigation

13. Action Point: • Train and Educate Land Use commissioners and Staff • Increase review, compliance and monitoring effort • Reach out to landowners in habitat areas to promote ecologically friendly behavior

14. Parcel Level Analysis Example : • Vulnerable Habitat Areas

20. Vulnerable Habitat Area

22. FVBP Working Group NEXT STEPS • Create momentum for implementation: • Identify entity to “own” implementation of the FVBP. • Should be a monthly agenda item. • Ideal = Conservation Commission • Create momentum for implementation: • Identify entity to “own” implementation of the FVBP. • Should be a monthly agenda item. • Ideal = Conservation Commission • Help us distribute materials and identify hurdles and solutions. • Create momentum for implementation: • Identify entity to “own” implementation of the FVBP. • Should be a monthly agenda item. • Ideal = Conservation Commission • Help us distribute materials and identify hurdles and solutions. • Help us coordinate presentation at meeting with combined PC/CC. • Create momentum for implementation: • Identify entity to “own” implementation of the FVBP. • Should be a monthly agenda item. • Ideal = Conservation Commission • Help us distribute materials and identify hurdles and solutions. • Help us coordinate presentation at meeting with combined PC/CC.

23. FVBP Working Group NEXT STEPS • Create momentum for implementation: • Identify entity to “own” implementation of the FVBP. • Should be a monthly agenda item. • Ideal = Conservation Commission • Help us distribute materials and identify hurdles and solutions. • Help us coordinate presentation at meeting with combined PC/CC

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