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TDC reviews county "GreenPrint" conservation maps and discusses land-trust and funding options
Summary
Board members reviewed a county GreenPrint study identifying drinking-water recharge, wildlife corridors, threatened habitats and other priority maps, and discussed starting a land trust and testing a sales-tax referendum to fund land conservation.
Board members used the March 11 meeting to highlight Citrus County's GreenPrint, a multi-map conservation analysis staff presented from a county workshop. The GreenPrint overlay identifies seven themes — drinking water (aquifer recharge), surface water, wildlife corridors, threatened and endangered species habitat, agriculture, historic and cultural resources, and access to recreation — and maps those assets against current development and protected lands.
A board member summarized the GreenPrint findings to the council: "The green…
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