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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONAL MASTER PLAN

GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONAL MASTER PLAN. Prince George’s County MNCPP-C Draft: December, 2004. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN. Comprehensive vision for conserving significant environmental ecosystems.

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GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONAL MASTER PLAN

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  1. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE FUNCTIONAL MASTER PLAN Prince George’s County MNCPP-C Draft: December, 2004

  2. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN • Comprehensive vision for conserving significant environmental ecosystems. • Brings decision-making, land use policy and infrastructure investments together to help maintain critical corridors and to target restoration and mitigation.

  3. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK • Designated areas of countywide environmental significance. • Contains most of the county’s most significant natural resource lands including streams, wetlands, buffers, 100-year flood-plains, severe slopes, interior forests, colonial waterbird nesting sites and unique habitats.

  4. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK • Covers approximately 168,000 acres or 54% of the county. • 33% is in public ownership; 67% is in private ownership.

  5. NETWORK CATEGORIES • Regulated Areas. Streams, wetlands, buffers, 100 year floodplain, steep slopes. • Evaluation Areas. Interior forests, colonial waterbird nesting sites, unique habitats. • Network Gaps. Areas that are critical to the connection of regulated and evaluation areas.

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  7. RELATIONSHIP OF PLAN TO RURAL TIER • Approximately 47% of green infrastructure network is located in Rural Tier. • Plan identifies substantial rural areas to be protected through public land acquisition and the land development process.

  8. PLAN OBJECTIVES • Focus conservation and protection efforts on areas of countywide significance located in the green infrastructure network. • Establishes benchmarks for measuring improvements/ success in achieving plan goals.

  9. PLAN OBJECTIVES • Reduce development impacts of new subdivisions in the Rural Tier and ensure that 100% of impacts to regulated areas are limited to unavoidable impacts such as those for road and utility crossings.

  10. PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS SPECIFIC TO RURAL TIER • Flexible design standards • Strengthen regulations to strictly limit development impacts • Provide incentives to encourage non-regulatory compliance • Maximize on-site conservation

  11. FLEXIBLE DESIGN STANDARDS • Allow use of conservation subdivision designs • Eliminate the use of lot size averaging and varying lot sizes • Minimize road impacts

  12. STRENGTHEN REGULATIONS • Strictly limit development impacts within regulated areas in the Rural Tier to activities such as those that are absolutely necessary and unavoidable for road and utility crossings in new subdivisions.

  13. PROVIDE INCENTIVIES • Establish a voluntary transfer of development rights program. • Establish county program for purchase of development rights within evaluation areas. • Allow density bonuses when projects maximize preservation of evaluation areas.

  14. MAXIMIZE ON-SITE PRESERVATION • Protect, enhance and restore green infrastructure. Maximize on-site conservation, especially in the Rural Tier.

  15. Working together to preserve the Rural Tier

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