tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159146050118998632.post7754810780141012271..comments2023-10-07T00:47:47.860-07:00Comments on Legacy 2030 | Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Planning Board: Community Discussion: Land UseLegacy 2030http://www.blogger.com/profile/14103983436220150758noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159146050118998632.post-21128146467160386552011-08-15T05:56:46.387-07:002011-08-15T05:56:46.387-07:00According to The Trust for Public Land, “Every min...According to The Trust for Public Land, “Every minute, America loses more than 3 acres of forests, farms, historic sites, meadows, and woods. That adds up to more than 3,000 acres a day…almost 1.5 million acres each year.” This acreage is indicated to be more land than the entire state of Delaware.<br /><br />We must educate our citizenry that sound land stewardship and land use provides a multitude of societal benefits. To do this, we must provide and support environmental educational programs at all grade levels in our public schools and we must advertise these benefits on radio, television and Internet. We must include information whenever possible in water bills, etc. [We must avoid ethnocentric thinking that everyone watches the city’s television and that everyone receives a public water bill.] <br /><br />“I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution, because nothing so important as an ethic is ever written. It evolves in the minds of a thinking community.” – Aldo Leopold (from the movie, Green Fire, Aldo Leopold and a Land Ethic for Our Time)JRLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159146050118998632.post-66790144671129363202011-07-26T07:54:56.695-07:002011-07-26T07:54:56.695-07:00Preserving the farm land and natural area biodiver...Preserving the farm land and natural area biodiversity in the population dense area is important to the functioning of ecological services. ie rainwater collection and filtering, shade, and air cleaning. <br /><br />Preserving farm land and potential urban food production areas can preserve the possibility of having a resilient local food system in Winston-Salem/Forsyth Co. <br /><br />Tax incentives for planting native and food producing plants. <br /><br />This town can lay claim to the first planned forestry in America, one the first community gardens, and probably the richest documentation of the natural world during the transition to European settlement in America by the Salem botanists. These are all incredibly unique historical resources we can capitalize on and hopefully use to inform our decisions that affect land use patterns into the future.Eric Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01491359283101354001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7159146050118998632.post-52460362796785728732011-06-30T19:16:48.584-07:002011-06-30T19:16:48.584-07:00Compact development and compact redevelopment of b...Compact development and compact redevelopment of buildings that were previously used as retail. You must not allow any additional zoning for residental! You must think of rezoning, multi-use zoning and not the way of the past but the way of the future. Multi use, access to retail and mass transit are the only ways we will survive and continue to grow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com