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Map of Reston Town Green, North Town Center Area, Reston | Google Screen Print 2010-06
FAIRFAX COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, 2007 Edition
POLICY PLAN -- ENVIRONMENT
"The expectation for the preservation, management, and rehabilitation of meaningful components of the County’s environmental heritage should be high, given the large number of people who live here and the importance of local environmental resources to the quality of life."
Amended through 2-25-2008 [Excerpts: Objectives 1 & 10. Read full Environment Policy Plan at link below]
Environment - Objective 1: Preserve and improve air quality.
POLICY C:
Support air quality improvement through tree preservation, tree planting and sensitive landscaping practices. Support and encourage the following during the reviews of development proposals:
-Maximization of tree preservation consistent with planned land use and good silvicultural practices.
-Maximization of tree planting/tree cover restoration consistent with planned land use and good silvicultural practices.
Pursuit of energy-conscious landscaping efforts such as the planting of trees to provide shading of buildings during the summer months.
-Preservation and/or planting of trees to shade parking lots, thereby reducing heating of parked vehicles and associated evaporative emissions.
-Planting of street trees within road medians and along thoroughfares where consistent with safety.
-Pursuit of landscaping practices that optimize the planting of native species of trees, shrubs and other vegetation in a manner that minimizes the need for mowing and other maintenance activities, particularly during the hotter months of the year.
-Minimization of applications of pesticides with reactive VOC content through integrated pest management approaches to pest control.
OBJECTIVE 10:
The retention of environmental amenities on developed and developing sites is also important. The most visible of these amenities is the County's tree cover. It is possible to design new development in a manner that preserves some of the existing vegetation in landscape plans. It is also possible to restore lost vegetation through replanting. An aggressive urban forestry program could retain and restore meaningful amounts of the County's tree cover.
Objective 10:
Conserve and restore tree cover on developed and developing sites. Provide tree cover on sites where it is absent prior to development.
Policy a.: Protect or restore the maximum amount of tree cover on developed and developing sites consistent with planned land use and good silvicultural practices.
Policy b.: Require new tree plantings on developing sites which were not forested prior to development and on public rights of way.
Policy c.: Use open space/conservation easements as appropriate to preserve woodlands, monarch trees, and/or rare or otherwise significant stands of trees, as identified by the County.
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/projects/reston/environment_pol...
Map of Reston Town Green, North Town Center Area, Reston | Google Screen Print 2010-06
FAIRFAX COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, 2007 Edition
POLICY PLAN -- ENVIRONMENT
"The expectation for the preservation, management, and rehabilitation of meaningful components of the County’s environmental heritage should be high, given the large number of people who live here and the importance of local environmental resources to the quality of life."
Amended through 2-25-2008 [Excerpts: Objectives 1 & 10. Read full Environment Policy Plan at link below]
Environment - Objective 1: Preserve and improve air quality.
POLICY C:
Support air quality improvement through tree preservation, tree planting and sensitive landscaping practices. Support and encourage the following during the reviews of development proposals:
-Maximization of tree preservation consistent with planned land use and good silvicultural practices.
-Maximization of tree planting/tree cover restoration consistent with planned land use and good silvicultural practices.
Pursuit of energy-conscious landscaping efforts such as the planting of trees to provide shading of buildings during the summer months.
-Preservation and/or planting of trees to shade parking lots, thereby reducing heating of parked vehicles and associated evaporative emissions.
-Planting of street trees within road medians and along thoroughfares where consistent with safety.
-Pursuit of landscaping practices that optimize the planting of native species of trees, shrubs and other vegetation in a manner that minimizes the need for mowing and other maintenance activities, particularly during the hotter months of the year.
-Minimization of applications of pesticides with reactive VOC content through integrated pest management approaches to pest control.
OBJECTIVE 10:
The retention of environmental amenities on developed and developing sites is also important. The most visible of these amenities is the County's tree cover. It is possible to design new development in a manner that preserves some of the existing vegetation in landscape plans. It is also possible to restore lost vegetation through replanting. An aggressive urban forestry program could retain and restore meaningful amounts of the County's tree cover.
Objective 10:
Conserve and restore tree cover on developed and developing sites. Provide tree cover on sites where it is absent prior to development.
Policy a.: Protect or restore the maximum amount of tree cover on developed and developing sites consistent with planned land use and good silvicultural practices.
Policy b.: Require new tree plantings on developing sites which were not forested prior to development and on public rights of way.
Policy c.: Use open space/conservation easements as appropriate to preserve woodlands, monarch trees, and/or rare or otherwise significant stands of trees, as identified by the County.
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpz/projects/reston/environment_pol...