A conservation plan as described in §
135-8.3 shall be submitted to and approved by the Board of Commissioners for any of the following activities:
A. Any activity listed in §
101-7 of this chapter, except activities listed in §
101-7A(2).
B. Any application for approval for which such plan is required under Chapter
135, Subdivision and Land Development.
C. Any activities which would interfere with the use of a pedestrian
or equestrian trail.
A conservation plan shall include the following
minimum information. When any of this information has already been
prepared as part of an application under the Township Subdivision
and Land Development Ordinance, then it shall be duplicated and inserted
into the pertinent section(s) of the conservation plan
A. Inventory.
(1) Property base map. A base map of the applicant's property shall meet the requirements for preliminary plan approval, as set forth in Chapter
135, Subdivision and Land Development, with respect to sheet size, scale, property acreage calculations, delineation of courses and distances of property boundaries, dedicated street rights-of-way and easements.
(2) Boundary and adjoining property conditions. The following information
shall be indicated on the property base map: existing zoning and minimum
setback requirements applicable to the applicant's property and adjoining
properties. A smaller scale map, drawn as an inset on the base map
sheet, may be used to present information on adjoining property conditions.
(3) Existing natural features. The following information shall be shown on the property base map as outlined in Chapter
135, Subdivision and Land Development, Table 8.3.1.
B. Mitigation and maintenance. For all activities listed in §
101-7 of this chapter, the conservation plan shall include provisions for impact mitigation and long-term maintenance, as follows:
(1) Depiction on the property base map of mitigation measures proposed by the applicant, including number and placement of plantings and of other landscape or design improvements, as specified in §§
101-8,
101-9 and
101-10 of this chapter.
(2) Documentation showing the extent to which the landscape planting and design measures conform to the requirements of §§
101-8 and
101-10 of this chapter. Where they do not conform, the applicant shall demonstrate one or more of the following:
(a)
That other mitigation measures chosen will produce comparable
or superior results.
(b)
That, through design excellence in site planning, landscape architecture and architecture, the requirements of §§
101-8 and
101-10 are unnecessary or inappropriate.
(c)
That the need to mitigate in accordance with the requirements
constitutes an unreasonable or unnecessary financial burden.
(3) Sufficient information to demonstrate that all maintenance standards in §
101-11 will be complied with.