REGIONAL GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN

The 2011 Regional Green Infrastructure Plan provides analytical tools and strategies to support local governments’ involvement in and response to Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan-Phase 2 program. This Plan is advisory in nature and respects local governments’ atonomy, while identifying regional assets within each community that, with cooperation among local governments, could be preserved or enhanced to maintain the Region’s high quality of life and natural areas and open space valued by the region’s citizenry.

2011 Regional Green Infrastructure Plan

Acknowledgements, Steering Committee and Partnering Organizations

GWRC Resolution No. 12-07, Endorsing the Regional Green Infrastructure Plan

Table of Contents

Lists of Tables and Figures

I.  Executive Summary

II.  Green Infrastructure: Introduction

III.  The Green Infrastructure Plan

IV.  Goals of the Green Infrastructure Plan

V.  Assessing the Regional Asset

A.  Custom Regional VCLNA Data Set (GWRC Eco-Cores & Corridors)

B.  Urban Ecosystem Analysis

C.  Estimating Impervious Surface Area

D.  Regional and Local Greenway Planning

Map of Greenway Paths for Caroline County

Map of Greenway Paths for City of Fredericksburg

Map of Greenway Paths for Spotsylvania County

Map of Greenway Paths for Stafford County

E.  Regional Scenario Planning Models

F.  Children and Nature Network

VI.  Green Infrastructure Implementation Toolkit

VII.  Highlighting Local “Green Infrastructure” – Related Programs

VIII.  Findings and Recommendations

Appendices

Sources and End Notes