Farmington Community Gardens Presentation Farmington Board of Selectmen April 2012
Farmington Valley Biodiversity Project Implementation.
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Transcript of Farmington Valley Biodiversity Project Implementation.
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Farmington Valley Biodiversity Project
Implementation
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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
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CHANGE WHAT WE CAN DO (Structural)
How do we use the FVBP to protect our natural legacy?
– Amend POCD to address FVBP– Subdivision/zoning changes that focus on
Primary and Secondary Conservation Areas– Require applicant to fund third party review
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WORK AT MULTIPLE SCALES
How do we use the FVBP to protect our natural legacy?
– Parcel specific information– Town wide planning– Landscape/ecosystem
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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.
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Action Point:
• Acquire and maintain appropriate natural resource data.
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Action Point:
• Plan at an ecosystem scale
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• Update POCD
Action Point:
A roadmap to achieve conservation goals.
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Action Point:
• Align regulations with POCD goals and policies
• Implement zoning techniques to conserve ecologically sensitive and important areas
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Action Point:
• Expand/Refine Open Space Programs
• Separate Land Use Commissions
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• Adopt specific ecological review standards for applicants
• Adopt provision for applicants to fund outside expert review
• Provide for pre-application review process
Action Point:
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• Incorporate BMP’s and BDP’s into standard application review and permitting
• Reduce use of mitigation
Action Point:
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• 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
Action Point:
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Parcel Level Analysis
Example :
• Vulnerable Habitat Areas
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Vulnerable Habitat Area
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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.
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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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Thank you for your time.