PLANNING BOARDJANUARY 21, 2010

Policy 3.1 Ensure that a critical mass of high quality, strategically located farmland is protected from development.Purchase of Development rights. Purchase agricultural

preservation easements on at least 5000 additional acres in the Rural West.

STRATEGIC FARMLAND LOCATION

STRATEGIC FARMLAND LOCATION

Policy 4.18 Enhance the county park system and recreation facilities.Acquisition Schedule. Accelerate

acquisition of land to meet the County’s long term recreation needs since suitable sites are disappearing rapidly. Priority for park acquisition should be directed inside the PSA where population is greatest.

Policy 5.14 Maintain or enhance the landscape character of roads:

Scenic Roads in the East. Strengthen requirements for view protection.

Policy 5.18 Establish a county-wide historic preservation program.

Broadening of participation. Coordinate county historic preservation initiatives and programs with state and federal programs and with historic preservation and interpretive programs of local nonprofit organizations.

Policy 3.4 Protect Water Resources.

Watershed Planning. Investigate the relative significance of water quality impacts from septic systems…

Policy 6.8 Secure better protection of environmental and landscape resources within new developments.

Expansion of Residential-Environmental Development Zoning. Refine R-ED zoning district requirements and expand the use of this district in the eastern portion of the county…

Smart Growth has four straightforward goals:Support existing communities by targeting resources

to support development in areas where infrastructure exists;

Save our most valuable natural resources before they are forever lost;

Save taxpayers from the high cost of building infrastructure to serve development that has spread far from our traditional population centers; and

Provide Marylanders with a high quality of life, whether they choose to live in a rural community, suburb, small town, or city.

Site Plan Design

Core Design Principals•The best practices in site design exceed the requirements and objectives of the Howard County General Plan and Smart Growth policy

•This plan uses those best practices to create an innovative and site sensitive design

•The plan incorporates key sustainable development principals and is an example of the future of planning

What the General Plan and Smart Growth want to avoid

What the most sophisticated planning principles achieve

Proposed Plan uses best of accepted practices and mitigates their negatives

Use topography yet createmeaningful communal spaces

Key Design Elements

Roads

Key Design Elements

Communal Spaces

Key Design Elements

Environmental Sensitivity