Smart Growth and Chesapeake Waters

Playing a very important part in Chesapeake Bay

restoration

• Stella Koch, Audubon Naturalist Society•Mike Kane, Piedmont Environment Conservancy•Jennifer Bevan-Dangel, 1000 Friends of Maryland• Mark Bryer, The Nature Conservancy

8 Tools of Watershed Protection (CWP)

• Land Use Planning Planning and Implementation

• Land Conservation• Aquatic Buffers• Erosion and Sediment Control• Stormwater Management• Non-stormwater Management• Watershed Stewardship Programs

Development

The Creation of Impervious SurfaceChanging the way surface water moves

19%

74%

Developed Areas in 2000

Developed Land

Farm and Forest

2030, Under Current Trends

800,000 new acres of Land would be developed, much of it in rural areas.

Gallery Place

1993: Vacant Lots w/Surface Parking

Metro Station

¼ mile

Town of Herndon

1300 acres

Gallery Place Development

Area

office

shopping

church

homes

homes

homes

Separation of Community Activities:Where’s the Center in Centreville?

STREAMS The Consequences of

Imperviousness

A healthy stream

Components

Yet our streams often look like this

A QUICK CASE STUDY – TYSONS CORNER, VIRGINIA

green network design

We need to provide incentives and rewards for good land use decisions.