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What is the municipal purpose of Park Classification
- Intended to help in HRM investment decision making
- Helps to establish Service Delivery Goals
- Helps to apply context of everyday recreation land use into community design.
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Park Dedication is the prescriptive policy to
- Acquire the land
- Define the boundaries of the public realm
- Initiate the built form
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What is the purpose of the Subdivision Application Process?
Prepare a municipal recommendation on a proposed subdivision of land development based on current policy and sound planning principles
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What are the stages of park planning
- Concept Stage
- Tentative Stage
- Final Stage
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What is the Concept Stage?
- Research inventory
- Obtain Schedule B (What HRM is eligible for)
- Understand utility requirements (water, sewer)
- Consider form of Park Dedication
- (Land or monetary)
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What goes on in the Tentative Stage of park planning?
- Compare with approved concept plan
- Research updated inventory
- If it's to be Land
- -Location to be identified on engineering drawings
- -confirm location relative to engineering criteria
- -confirm site design if applicable
- -site visits require
- Confirm cash value
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What goes on in the Final Stage of park planning?
- Compare with approved Tentative Plan
- Confirm any updated inventory
- If it's land
- -Confirm location relative to engineering criteria
- -Confirm, if applicable, site prep or site development
- -Attend pre-construction meeting with contractor
- -Site visits required
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What does "Park Dedication" mean?
- A useable parcel of land for public purposes
- -useable means a parcel of land which meets the requirements of section 83 (RSBL) is free of encumberances
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What are Encumbrances
Legal, environmental, or physical constraints on the property that may limit its use and management or present unreasonable development or remediation costs to the Municipality
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What are Site Improvements?
- The construction required to eliminate any environmental or physical encumbrances on the land to be provided as the park dedication
- Developer doesn't get credit
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What are Site Developments
- ex. a playground built in a park
- Developments that are done within park areas
- Credit can be given to developers
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What are the Environmentally Sensitive Areas
- Private or public open space that is identified, designated or protected by a local, provincial, territorial, national, or international public agency as ecologically, culturally or archeologically significant
- Lands with the primary function to conserve habitats
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What does Section 83.5 illustrate?
Exception to environmentally sensitive area rules when the existence of significant environmental and cultural things provide an opportunity for public access and interpretation.
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What is CPTED?
Crime prevention through environmental design
- Natural Surveillance
- Territorial Reinforcement
- Natural Access Control
- Target Hardening
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How do you apply the 10% Park Dedication?
Subdivision By-law
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When do parks succeed?
- The land provides character
- The public realm is clear and visible
- The built form is vibrant
- Activities and programs are good
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What do park Planners need to do?
- Understand the layers as a sustainability filter
- Understand what's in the inventory
- Understand what HRM is eligible for
- Focus on quality vs quantity
- Get out on the land and explore
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