Goals
Below are the proposed Open Space and Historic Resources Plan Goals presented to Town Council at the March 1 work session:

Create an interconnected system of preserved open spaces

  • Conserve a contiguous network of open, natural areas - a green infrastructure
  • Create trail corridors and greenways between open space areas
  • Create efficiency of scale for land management
  • Provide recreational and educational benefits to citizens
Protect environmentally significant areas
  • Conserve contiguous forests
  • Protect wildlife corridors
  • Protect habitat and species diversity
  • Protect significant natural features
  • Preserve wetlands and stream buffers
Protect cultural resources
  • Preserve historic landscapes that reflect our rural heritage
  • Protect working farms
  • Preserve viewsheds and scenic vistas that provide relief from the built environment
Inform landowners on the values, benefits, and opportunities of preservation
  • Encourage resource landowners to do long-range planning for their land
  • Provide technical assistance and preservation incentives to resource landowners
  • Keep landowners informed of preservation programs and opportunities (example: Conservation Tax Credit Program, USDA/NRCS incentive programs, land trust information, etc.

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