greenprint

n. a government’s or community’s environmental plan, especially one concerned with parks, forests, waterways, greenways, and other shared spaces. Also as verb, to make such a plan. Subjects: English, Environment, Urban Planning & Zoning

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Citations: 1987 Bob Smyth Building Design (Sept. 11) p. 26: Papers already submitted to the Burgess Park Steering Group, a joint subcommittee of councillors from the planning and leisure committees, indicate variations on the former GLC greenprint. Early this year when the new leisure and recreation department came into operation, there was a tussle between it and the planning and development department—which had succeeded in retaining the council’s landscape design section—as to which should have control of park development. 1995 Minnesota House of Representatives (Apr. 21) “State Of Minnesota Seventy-Ninth Session—1995: Article 14 Environmental Education”: “State plan” means “Greenprint for Minnesota: A State Plan for Environmental Education.” 2000 [Michele S. Byers] @ New Jersey (Jan. 12) “The State We’re In: NJ Saves 1,000 Acres In The Delaware Bay Watershed” @ Usenet: nj.general (Jan. 10, 2000) Phil Reynolds “Garden State Environews 000110”: In 1998 we published Charting a Course for the Delaware Bay Watershed (available from NJCF). It serves as a “greenprint” for conservation work in the Bayshore. 2007 Laurel Tuohy Litchfield County Times (Connecticut) (July 5) “Tim Abbott Talks the Talk”: The Greenprint is a joint effort of the Trust for Public and the Cornwall-based Housatonic Valley Association, which, according to HVA’s Web site “are working together to initiate a community-based mapping, networking and land conservation process in the Housatonic River watershed in Litchfield County. This process—called greenprinting—seeks to inventory protected open space across the area, and in partnership with local land trusts and government, identify new ways to finance and protect land.”

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