Conservation Design in Shorelands

May 14 - Spicer (cancelled)
June 18 - Walker
9:00 am - 3:00 pm (check-in 8:30 am)

Faculty: Kris Larson, Jay Michels, Paul Radomski, Brian Ross and John Sumption

Audience: Particularly valuable for those who have a basic understanding of Shoreland development issues and are looking for practical strategies to address them.

Presented in cooperation with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources

This program is a “how to” workshop, with everything from setting up your comp plan/ordinances, to site evaluation/design principles with real life examples, to administration and enforcement of easements and covenants.

Topics include:

• Update on new rules
  
• The science of shoreland protection: Why care?
  
• Knowing what you have: Analyzing your community’s resources with tools such as natural resource inventories, GIS overlays
  
• Planning and protection tools for shoreland protection
  
• Conservation design concepts and tools
  
• Low impact development concepts, principles and practices
  
• Implementing the concept: The Cass County case study

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