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LUO 4C: Utilize infrastructure to avoid or mitigate significant negativeenvironmental impacts from development.LUO 4D: Locate new infrastructure in appropriate areas.LUO 4E: Promote intermodal centers and greater reliance on transit.LUO 4F: Provide pedestrian connections through all centers and urban districts.LUO 4G: Maintain the functional integrity of existing and planned roadways.ImplementationGoalLUG 5: Implement and maintain the vision. Continue to support publicstewardship for land use through strategic public investments in growthcenters, land conservation, development, and enhanced planningcapacity at the local and regional levels.ObjectivesLUO 5A: Reform Rhode Island property tax system in a manner that supportsthe goals and objectives of this plan.LUO 5B: Encourage municipalities to maintain clear and current land use plans,and coordinated regulations to attain land use goals on a statewide,regional and community level.LUO 5C: Develop and maintain excellent land use information and technologysystems.LUO 5D: Ensure that State and municipal planning officials are well-trained andproperly supported.LUO 5E: Revise current statutes to ensure that Rhode Island’s planning enablinglegislation will be the contemporary and responsive foundation forState and municipal land management decisions.LUO 5F: Achieve greater integration of State and municipal planning systemsand support regional efforts.2-3 Land Use 2025 PoliciesThe policies outlined here are intended to guide activities toward fulfillment of their plangoals. As in other elements of the State Guide Plan, these policies provide a foundation2-8 Land Use 2025: Rhode Island State Land Use Policies and Plan (April 2006)
for action that encompasses related social, physical, and environmental factors to beconsidered in making land use decisions.PoliciesLUP 1: Link land use planning with water use planning to encourage newgrowth in appropriate locations that preserves a clean and adequatewater supply.LUP 2: Control sprawl and the urban exodus of business and industry.LUP 3: Use open space to control and shape urban growth.LUP 4: Achieve a livable, coherent, and visually pleasing environment.LUP 5: Relate the use of land to its natural characteristics, varying suitabilityand capacity for development.LUP 6: Relate the use of land to the level of public facilities and servicesavailable, or planned to be available.LUP 7: Promote the establishment of higher residential densities and smaller lotfrontages in urban and suburban areas, and town centers, where publicwater and sewer service is present or planned. In areas that lacksupporting infrastructure, promote conservation development andidentification of appropriate sites for village centers that will providecompact mixed-use areas for locating services, commercial space,housing, and public transportation hubs.LUP 8: Promote low overall densities where public services are unavailable andare not planned. Promote conservation development in areas that lacksupporting infrastructure.LUP 9: Recognize Narragansett Bay and watersheds as assets that contributesignificantly to the State’s beauty and connectivity. Promote holisticsystems planning approaches at the watershed level.LUP 10: Guide development in a manner that will prevent encroachment onfloodways, dunes, barrier beaches, coastal and freshwater wetlands, andother natural features that provide protection from storms, flooding, andsea-level rise.LUP 11: Facilitate public stewardship of healthy and vibrant watersheds thatsustain life and support current and future uses.Land Use 2025: Rhode Island State Land Use Policies and Plan (April 2006) 2-9
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PART FOUR: HOW DO WE GET THERE?4-1
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This section describes the process
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4-8 Scenario Analysis: Assessing Al
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The land need projections for the f
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Table 121-04(10)QUANTITATIVE* COMPA
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The concentration of development in
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5-2 State InvestmentsAs noted in Pa
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land use plan must contain an analy
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Strategies12Support the participati
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Community DesignLeadAgenciesTimeFra
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7Locate small-scale convenience sho
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InfrastructureLeadAgenciesTimeFrame
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3Coordinate transportation and land
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AbbreviationCRMCDEMDOADOHDOTEDCGAGO
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Source Management Plan, State Guide
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