TAILIEUCHUNG - Perlman - Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers and Citizens - Chapter 10

10 Ecologically Based Planning and Design Techniques Let’s return for a moment to Exponentia, our beleaguered community with typical post-1950s, North American development patterns. Although Exponentia has a comprehensive plan, zoning ordinances, and even detailed site design standards. | 1 10 Ecologically Based Planning and Design Techniques A Let s return for a moment to Exponentia our beleaguered community with typical post-1950s North American development patterns see Chapter 3 . Although Exponentia has a comprehensive plan zoning ordinances and even detailed site design standards the resulting development looks remarkably unplanned. Houses condominiums shopping centers and office parks are separated into single-use pods linked by wide habitat-fragmenting roads. There is certainly some greenery on the landscape but aside from a few parks most of it is leftover scraps of unbuildable land or token landscaped open space within developments. What few natural habitats remain are accessible only to salamanders with driver s licenses. Looking east toward the mountains development is sparser but still regular enough to break up any large blocks of natural land. Focusing in on individual developments we see a landscape that has been clear-cut regraded and replanted with turfgrass and exotic plant species a landscape where natural water flows have been rerouted to underground pipes and stormwater detention ponds. These developments are the product of standards and regulations dimensional requirements road widths pipe diameters curb types and turning radii for fire trucks that are exceedingly detailed yet give little regard to the natural environment. We wish that Exponentia were a straw man a grotesque exaggeration of reality but in fact this picture should resonate with residents in almost every part of the United States and Canada. The recent smart growth movement is an attempt to address the environmental social economic and quality of life problems associated with growth pat Ecologically Based Planning and Design Techniques 187 terns such as those in Exponentia. Impetus from land use professionals environmentalists community activists politicians and some developers has prompted major changes in how planning and development occur in some .

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