Retaining Natural Resources

Date: April 16, 2008
Time: 6-8:30 p.m.
Location: MARC Conference Center (map)
Fee: $40 per person
$35 per person for 3 or more

What you'll learn:

Planning commissioners are increasingly concerned with natural resources in their communities as they develop land-use plans and review zoning proposals or site plans. Destruction of valuable natural areas — woodlands, wetlands or wildlife habitat — can pose risks to life and property and greatly increase the cost of development. This session will focus on methods for communities to identify and evaluate natural resources and tools that communities can use to protect reserves while supporting new development.

Instructor:

Patti Banks is the president of Patti Banks Associates (PBA), a community and environmental planning and landscape architectural consulting firm whose work focuses on public participatory and ecologically based planning and design. PBA has assisted many communities in the Kansas City region to evaluate their natural resources and develop protection strategies that achieve important environmental goals while enhancing the quality of the built environment. PBA assisted MARC in the development of a regional Natural Resources Inventory (NRI), a series of GIS data layers providing information on the region’s most important natural resources, and in the application of the NRI to update the region’s greenway trails plan, MetroGreen.

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