2040 Comprehensive Plan: Envision Shakopee
FIGURE 4.5 - OPENSPACE CONSERVATION DEVELOPMENTDESIGN
DEVELOPMENT AND OPEN SPACE The Shakopee community highly values open space and natural amenities. Throughout community outreach, concerns were raised about the potential for future development to compromise the amount and quality of open space and natural features as Shakopee grows. Open space preservation should be a core design objective for new greenfield residential development. One strategy is to implement conservation design or “cluster development” patterns as development occurs in rural transition areas at the edges of the city. The diagrams to the right identify the distinct advantages to conservation design. This approach provides an opportunity to preserve significant natural features and larger amounts of open space as a functional neighborhood amenity. As development occurs, adjacent open spaces and natural features such as stream corridors, woodlots, tree rows and bluffs should be connected together into a continuous greenway and trail system.
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Typical Subdivision
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Conservation Design Principles
Maintain Connected Network of Open Space and Natural Features
Preserve Tree Stands and Rows
Preserve Vistas and Road Character of Corridors
Preserve Publicly Accessible Open Space and Natural Areas
Preserve Historic Architecture
ENVISION SHAKOPEE | SECTION V: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
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