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ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES INVENTORY POLICY MANUAL (B)
A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Gainesville, Florida, approving and establishing the Environmental Features Inventory Policy Manual for use in preparing the environmental features report required pursuant to section 30-309 of the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances.
recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed resolution.
explanation
The City Commission at its meeting of June 28, 2004, approved Petition 22TCH-02PB, regarding the Significant Ecological Communities Overlay District (District) to enable the City to protect and restore significant ecological features of certain environmentally sensitive property. Ordinance 020697, considered for first reading on October 25, 2004 and second reading November 8, 2004, formalizes the terms of this Petition by amending section 30-309, Land Development Code.
Pursuant to the terms of Ordinance 020697, an important requirement for new development of properties identified within the District is that an environmental inventory must be prepared for each parcel as a condition for development approval of the parcel. The Report will be written in compliance with the requirements stated in the Environmental Features Inventory Policy Manual, which is to be adopted separately by Resolution.
The Manual contains the guidelines and requirements for preparation of the Environmental Features Report. Each Report will contain an environmental site assessment, a listing of plant and animal species on the property, a description of rare or exemplary natural communities and wetlands/surface waters on the property, a landscape plan, plans for conservation area buffers (if the parcel neighbors a conservation area), and other elements stated in the environmental management section of the Land Development Code. This Manual was revised by staff in response to Commission comments presented at the October 25, 2004 first reading of Ordinance 0...
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