Title/Name/Summary
Open Space Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan
History
PROJECT:
Open Space Element amendment
PETITIONER:
Village of Orland Park
PURPOSE:
To update the Open Space Element of the Comprehensive Plan
LOCATION:
The Open Space Element addresses the entire Planning Area for the Village of Orland Park
ATTACHMENTS:
Draft Open Space Element text
Maps
DISCUSSION
The purpose of a Comprehensive Plan is to represent policy as envisioned by The Board of Trustees as representatives of the Village citizens. It serves as a guide for decision making for land use and development, natural resource protection, community facilities and services and transportation. It is essential that the document be regularly updated to ensure that it continues to reflect community standards and values. The Village Comprehensive Plan is approximately eighteen years old, with the most recent update approximately ten years old. The Open Space Element was last updated in 1997.
Open Space is currently addressed in the Land Use Chapter of the Comprehensive Plan with both text and mapping. The current text includes goals and objectives for Greenbelts, Sensitive Environmental Areas, and Open Space. Existing mapping includes analysis maps for floodways, floodplain, wetlands, steep slopes and trees; a Greenbelt Concept Map; and an
Open Space Master Plan. The proposed amendment is built upon many of the principles and guidelines established in the existing adopted Comprehensive Plan. The proposed amendment includes an overall vision for the Open Space Element and goals for:
1. Greenbelt Connections
2. Preservation
3. Parks and Recreation
4. Implementation
Two maps will be included as a part of the Comprehensive Plan amendment and are before you tonight for initial introduction and discussion:
1. Site Sensitivity Analysis Map based on physical land features,
2. Open Space Element Master Plan.
The Site Sensitivity Analysis was developed using our GIS (Geographic In...
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