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Wink Hastings, RLA National Park Service Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program Barbara L. Hopkins, JD, ASLA Executive Director NeighborSpace
Wink Hastings, RLA National Park Service Rivers, Trails &
Conservation Assistance Program Barbara L. Hopkins, JD, ASLA
Executive Director NeighborSpace of Baltimore County, Inc.
Community Engagement in Conservation Planning within the Inner Ring
Suburbs of Baltimore
1. Social Improving the health, welfare & cohesiveness of
communities within the URDL 3. Economic Enhancing property values,
reducing exposure to pollutants and environmental degradation,
& improving efficiency of environmental services 2.
Environmental Improving environmental quality, protecting habitat,
& reducing the effects of fragmentation
BackgroundMissionStakeholders Objectives & Criteria Ranking /
Weighting Maps Mission of promoting more livability communities by
protecting and improving land within the URDL embraces 3
goals:
Environmental Goal Improving environmental quality, protecting
habitat, & reducing the effects of fragmentation Objective A
Conserving land to improve air & water quality Objective B
Conserving land to protect habitat &/or reduce fragmentation
>PROXIMITY TO TRIBUTARIES & VEGETATED BUFFERS >HARDENED
SHORELINES SUITABLE FOR REMOVAL >BURIED STREAMS OR STORMWATER
OUTFALLS >SUITABILITY FOR REFORESTATION >PROXIMITY TO NATURAL
LANDS NETWORK >POTENTIAL FOR WETLAND CREATION OR EXPANSION
>EXISTENCE OF CORE HABITAT Criteria (GIS Layers) for
Conservation Land That Will Achieve the Objectives Results
Necessary to Achieve Goal BackgroundMissionStakeholders Objectivea
& Criteria Ranking / Weighting Maps
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A. PROXIMITY TO NATURAL LANDS NETWORK B. POTENTIAL FOR WETLAND
CREATION OR EXPANSION C. EXISTENCE OF CORE HABITAT A.PROXIMITY TO
NATURAL LANDS NETWORK B. POTENTIAL FOR WETLAND CREATION OR
EXPANSION C. EXISTENCE OF CORE HABITAT Strongly Prefer 3 Prefer2
Somewhat Prefer 1 Equal0 Pairwise Comparison Using Pairwise
Comparison to Rank the Criteria for Objective B, Conserving land to
protect habitat and reduce fragmentation Rating Scale Resulting
Criteria (Layer) Weights A,3 C,3 BackgroundMissionStakeholders
Objectives & Criteria Ranking / Weighting Maps
Slide 13
Actual Pairwise Comparison Questionnaire and Results for
Objective B PARAMETERNEIGHBOR SPACE SCORES STAKE- HOLDER SCORES
COMBINED SCORES ENVIRONMENTAL GOAL Improving Environmental Quality,
Protecting Habitat, and Reducing the Adverse Effects of
Fragmentation 0.34650.46900.4158 Objective B: conserve land to
protect habitat and/or reduce fragmentation 0.40420.50640.4620
-existence of core habitat0.27910.08870.3025 -potential for
expansion/creation of tidal wetlands0.29040.65840.3106 -proximity
to natural lands network0.43040.25290.3868
BackgroundMissionStakeholders Objectives & Criteria Ranking /
Weighting Maps
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Linear Weighted GIS Mode From Pairwise Comparison to GIS Maps
Via a Linear Weighted GIS Model BackgroundMissionStakeholders
Objectives & Criteria Ranking / Weighting Maps c 1 = GIS layer
for criterion 1 GIS Map Results = {(c 1 ) (w 1 ) + (c 2 )(w 2 ) +(c
3 )(w 3 ) .} w 1 = Weight for criterion 1 Where The Model =
{(existence of core habitat)(.3025) + (proximity to natural lands
network) (.3868) .} GIS Map Results The Results
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High: Including & Adjacent to Moderate: Within 200 ft Low:
Within 300 ft of wetland High: Within network Moderate: Adjacent
Low: Within mile Development of Metrics
BackgroundMissionStakeholders Objectives & Criteria Ranking /
Weighting Maps Development of Metrics Calibrating the Map Layers:
Development of Metrics
For More Information: Barbara L. Hopkins, JD, ASLA Executive
Director NeighborSpace of Baltimore County
[email protected] 443-377-3760 Wink
Hastings, RLA National Park Service at the Chesapeake Bay Program
Rivers, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program
[email protected] 410-260-2481 Web Page on the
Conservation Planning Effort (and a copy of this presentation)
http://www.neighborspacebaltimorecounty.org/openspaceplanning.html