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TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Shaping the Future of Your Community Program Working in the state’s fastest developing regions to provide community leaders and concerned citizens with tools and support to chart a more sustainable future

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Climate Change TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar

Climate Change TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Infrastructure Impacts

Climate Change Paradox TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. More Floods More Droughts Mass Rivers Alliance 2009 Taunton River flooding Flood Safety noaa.gov

Climate Change TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Source: EPA Forest Cover Impacts

Climate Change TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Source: Umass Extension Agriculture Impacts

Climate Change TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Source: MAPC Health Impacts

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Natural Systems Defense TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Shade Windblock Shelter Sponge Carbon Filter

Adaptation TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Protect natural & built environment Preserve quality of life Minimize harm to people, property and our economic well being

TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Adaptation Prioritize Protection: Important habitat and Green Infrastructure Prioritize Development: Concentrate near infrastructure and away from important natural resources Regional Plans – Implementation Toolkit

TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Adaptation Protect highly resilient lands Concentrate development away from vulnerable areas Align local plans and zoning Look beyond parcel and municipal boundaries

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© Paul Blankman What can I do?

Get involved! Talk with your municipality and local officials

 Do we allow open space design? Low impact design?  Do we have a current Open Space Plan? Is it reflected in the zoning and master plan?  Are there any large projects under consideration?  Have we adopted the Community Preservation Act?  Are we planning with climate change in mind? health, emergency planning, public works, long-term capital planning, forest management Ask questions!

Links to information are available

TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Losing Ground in Mass. On-line mapping tool massaudubon.org & links to toolkits for planning

Open Space Design Low Impact Design Conservation Design

100 acre wooded site with field, stream, and trail before development Two-acre zoning; conventional subdivision (34 lots, no preservation) Natural Resource Protection Zoning (14 lots, >75% preservation) Source: EEA Kurt Gaertner Natural Resource Protection Zoning

Offer incentives and alternatives for developers to explore, such as: Smaller lot frontages and setbacks Smaller minimum lot sizes Reduced road widths, sidewalks Less land clearing and grading Transfer of development rights Incentives for clustering Does my community encourage open space developments?

Conservation Design TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Green Infrastructure Reduces Pollutants in stormwater runoff Maintenance costs of infrastructure Crime Amount of stormwater runoff Increases Safety People’s sense of well being Habitat Property values (0.7-5%, 11%, up to 30%)

Benefits of Green Infrastructure Environmental Aesthetics & market value Avoided costs Meeting regulatory requirements Adapting to Climate Change Gap in water infrastructure funding over next 20 years, Water Infrastructure Finance Commission, Slide by Martin Pillsbury, MAPC

Lower infrastructure costs – less roads, stormwater management Reduced clearing and grading Protect water supplies Prevent flood damage, protect wetland buffers and floodplains Protect forests and farmlands Provide open space and trails for people and nature Support high quality of life and property values Equitable land value for individual property owners Benefits - Reducing Sprawl & Protecting Natural Green Infrastructure

Open Space zoning can be improved upon – often: Special Permit Required – Discretionary Can be long, expensive process Large parcel size Less than ideal land conservation Dimensional requirements make flexibility difficult Open Space Design can be improved with: By right/mandatory Formula-based/quick No minimum lot size [60%] of land area protected Strategic protection through conservation analysis Flexible design standards – lot size, frontage, setbacks, roads, etc. Source: EEA Kurt Gaertner

New Model Open Space Design Bylaw/Ordinance Model subdivision & special permit guidelines for density bonuses, shared driveways Easily customized Addresses questions raised by Wall Street v. Westwood decision Source: EEA Kurt Gaertner

Includes case studies, model bylaws, related information Source: EEA Kurt Gaertner

Examples

Source: Scott Horsley, Horsley Witten Inc.

Preserved Historic Sandwich Road, Slide courtesy of Horsley Witten Inc.

ANR Plan for Pinehills – before Open Space Design

Pinehills using open space design

Horsley Witten Slide courtesy of Horsley Witten Inc.

Residential Development - Plymouth, MA

Westford, Massachusetts TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Source: Westford, Massachusetts Open Space & Recreation Plan

Communities change… TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Westford, Massachusetts Technical Paper #4 - Westford Comprehensive Plan

Jarvis Way, Westford, MA

Jarvis Way Source: Chris Kluchman, AICP, Westford’s Director of Land Use Management, and Bill Turner, Conservation/Resource Planner (retired)

It takes teamwork! TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar. Jarvis Way No curbing, 18 feet wide with 2 foot shoulder Flexible sidewalk location, dead-end lot number maximum waived Waived piped drainage, allowed wider drainage swales and some increase in runoff in one location Trees planted, stone walls constructed, trail easements and common space created

Jarvis Way Source: Chris Kluchman, AICP, Westford’s Director of Land Use Management, and Bill Turner, Conservation/Resource Planner (retired)

Westford Trail Map 2014 TIPS (from office.microsoft.com) Minimize the number of slides. Keep your text simple by using bullet points or short sentences. Use art to help convey your message. Make labels for charts and graphs understandable. Check the spelling and grammar.

Open Space Plan

 /docs/eea/dcs/osrp- workbook08.pdf /docs/eea/dcs/osrp- workbook08.pdf  /grants-and-tech- assistance/guidance- technical- assistance/open-space- resources/ /grants-and-tech- assistance/guidance- technical- assistance/open-space- resources/ Open Space Planning State guidelines:

 Private foundations  Land trusts  Volunteer committees – Conservation Commission, Open Space, Community Preservation, Forestry, Agriculture, Planning  Non-profits (Mass Audubon, SEMPBA, The Nature Conservancy, i.e.)  State parks and agencies Non-profits, volunteering

Community Preservation Act

 158 communities have adopted CPA (45% of the Commonwealth’s cities and towns)  Close to $1.4 billion has been raised to date for community preservation funding statewide  21,838 acres of open space have been preserved  Nearly 1,250 outdoor recreation projects have been initiated CPA through Feb, 2015 Source:

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