Sentences with phrase «preserved as open space»

EcoVillage Ithaca sits on 175 acres, 90 percent of which is preserved as open space and farmland, Walker says, but being two miles uphill from downtown means accessibility takes a hit.

How Rancho Corral de Tierra was Preserved as Open Space The Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST), the preeminent land trust in San Mateo County, gathered the support of private donors to leverage $ 14 million in grants from the Coastal Conservancy and the California Wildlife Conservation Board.

In Columbia, nearly a quarter of the land is preserved as open space.

The township wants to preserve as open space 225 acres of buildable land.

Several Cary homeowners and members of the Citizens for a Better Community, an activist group, told the board that they still back the effort to acquire the property and preserve it as open space.

Not exact matches

As a steward of some of America's most beautiful and scientifically important open space and parklands, the company has donated more than half of the historic 93,000 - acre Irvine Ranch ® in Orange County — 50,000 acres — to permanently preserve these lands.

The Park District's interest follows a trend by other northwest suburban districts, such as Schaumburg and Dundee, which have acquired golf courses to preserve open space.

CAROL STREAM — A DuPage County regional planning department official Monday night encouraged Carol Stream village and Park District officials to preserve watershed areas as open space.

The mission of providing open space and recreation has been part of the Park District's mission since it was created in 1925 as a way to preserve parks along the rail line through town, parks officials said.

We will also need our representatives to continue to fight development and preserve the remaining parcels of open space in our communities, even as funding becomes tougher to come by.

As for the development rights credits, Mr. Dunleavy said he believes those credits should come from open space preserved in Riverhead Town, and not from open space purchased elsewhere.

OAG funding is helping the Chautauqua County Land Bank demolish between 40 - 50 highly distressed properties, as well as preserve and resell 40 - 50 vacant «side lots» that will be converted to open space and transferred to responsible owners who will put the lots back on the tax rolls.

In her bid for Congress, Ms. Throne - Holst, formerly a registered Independent, said that as Southampton supervisor she cut spending, reduced debt and upgraded the town's bond rating, while preserving «thousands of acres of open space» and introducing new energy - efficient building codes.

Based on the concerns raised at Monday's public hearing before the state assembly's Standing Committee of Environmental Conservation, state officials will draft a «battle plan,» in the words of State Senator Kenneth LaValle (R - Port Jefferson), for how they can fight to preserve the area as open space and avoid damaging its unique, diverse ecology.

As town supervisor, Ms. Throne - Holst said, she cut spending, reduced debt and upgraded the town's bond rating, while preserving «thousands of acres of open space» and introducing new energy - efficient building codes.

The Southold Town Board voted unanimously to move forward with preserving two parcels as open space, one of which is being donated to the town for conservation.

Namely, that port cities across the world — from Shanghai to Mumbai, Tokyo to Bangkok — need to preserve as much wetland and unfragmented open space as possible.

As this science fiction classic opens, botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter «Valley Forge» preserving the only botanical specimens left from Earth under huge geodesic domes.

The Preserve is protected open space and acts as a gateway to existing and future protected coastal resource areas nearby, via trails linking the Goleta Monarch Grove, Ellwood Shores coastal bluffs, Santa Barbara Shores County Park, the Devereux Slough and the beach.

While the new architectural plan will preserve the original building's gallery spaces, add a rooftop garden, and open up the house's second floor to the public for the first time, the letter's signatories are worried about the museum's larger context as an architectural complex.

Quoting section 5 of the Agreement (emphasis added), gardens «shall be offered either to (i) the Parks Department for preservation as community gardens or open space, or (ii) one or more not - for - profit land trust organizations, such offer to be conditioned on the agreement of the land trust to preserve such gardens as community gardens or open space.»

Principles — provides a mission statement for smart growth, listing goals such as preserving open space, farmland, and critical environmental areas; providing a variety of transportation choices; taking advantage of compact building design; and ensuring predictable, fair, and cost effective development decisions.

Many of those shuttered courses were built on land proscribed from redevelopment by local zoning codes seeking to preserve open space — or, as with Ahwatukee, by deed restrictions intended to protect homeowners who had paid a premium to live near a golf course.

Vintage details, such as the salvaged corbels supporting the open shelving, preserve the kitchen's old - fashioned feel and add a hint of sunny yellow to the space.