Natural Resource Inventory and Assessment - Town of Guilford

Town of Guilford, Planning and Zoning Commission 2002 Plan of Conservation and Development (POCD)
The Trust for Public Land website: http://www.tpl.org/
University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension System website: http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces
Appendix
H-1 A Compilation of Guilford’s Open Space Data
H-2 Metacomet Ridge Conservation Compact and Map
H-3 PA 490 Preferential Tax Assessment Program
Maps:
H-1 Open Space Resources of State/Regional/Federal Significance
H-2 Ownership of Open Space
H-3 Open Space, Built Land and Vacant Land
Endnotes
1 The American Planning Association defines green infrastructure as “the interconnected network of natural lands, open space,
waterways, and Smart Growth design measures that protects native species and ecological processes, maintains clean air and
water, reduces habitat fragmentation, pollution, and other threats to biodiversity, and improves the quality of life for people.”
2 State of Connecticut considers golf courses to be open space.
3 Taken from Plan for Open Space and Municipal Land Needs (LAC 2000).
4 “Greenway,” as defined by statute (CGS 23-100), means a corridor of open space that 1) may protect natural resources,
preserve scenic landscapes and historical resources or offer opportunities for recreation or non-motorized transportation, 2)
may connect existing protected areas and provide access to the outdoors, 3) may be located along a defining natural feature,
such as a waterway, along a man-made corridor, including an unused right-of-way, traditional trail routes or historic barge
canals, or 4) may be a greenspace along a highway or around a village.
5 State of Connecticut DEP Office of Long Island Sound Programs (OLISP)
6 Survey conducted as part of the Natural Resource Conservation Service Community Landscape Analysis.
7 Figure dated January 10, 2003, as per Carolie Evans, LAC Chairman, GLCT Land Acquisition Committee, and Guilford’s
appointee to SCCRWA’s Representative Policy Board.
8 Ibid.
9 Figures as per SCCRWA, dated January 10, 2004, reflecting the January 2003 divestment of about 61 acres of Class III land to
GLCT with permanent conservation easement.
10 Figures used herein accurate as of August 6, 2003.
11 See Appendix H.3 for Town Assessor’s definition of open space.
12 Figure taken from Guilford Planning and Zoning Commission’s Build Out Study (2002) and Growth Management Strategies
(2004)
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