Green Plan Final web - 1

Cheverly Green Infrastructure Plan

Preserving a thriving, healthy environment

for a sustainable community

Cheverly Green Infrastructure Plan Steering Committee

September 2011

Contents

Introduction

Background

The Cheverly Environment

Building on Accomplishments

Overview of Recommendations

Benefits of Ecosystem Services

The Natural Areas Network

Map of Network and Plan Recommendations

Cheverly’s Natural Capital: Soil, Water, Vegetation, Animal Life

Land Use and Our Built Environment

Achieving the Green Vision

Table of Recommendations

Cheverly Green Infrastructure Plan Steering Committee

(all who have served at any time over the period from May 2008 to September 2011)

Jeremy Coon, Co-Chair; Chair, Cheverly Planning Board

Chair, Land Use and Built Environment Working Group

R.J. Eldridge, Co-Chair; Cheverly Town Council

Chair, Map Working Group

Joe Fontana, Owner, MOSAIC Printing Company

Chair, Finance Working Group

Michael Giese, Cheverly Garden Club

Melanie Hartwig-Davis, Cheverly Parents Resource Center

Stephen Johnson, Fourth Ward Civic Association

David Kneipp, Cheverly Garden Club

Nathan McElroy, Cheverly Tree Commission

Chair, Tree Canopy Working Group

Norman Oslik, Progressive Cheverly

Leila Price, 4th Ward Civic Association

Cynthia Robinson, Progressive Cheverly

Chair, Education & Outreach Working Group

Matt T. Salo, Friends of Lower Beaver Dam Creek

Chair, Science Advisory Committee

Sheila Salo, Cheverly History Club

Researcher, website manager

Dan Smith, Friends of Lower Beaverdam Creek

Chair, Stormwater Management Working Group

Facilitator: Wink Hastings, Project Manager, Chesapeake Bay Program, National Park Service

Science Advisory Committee

Marian Dombroski

Delvin S. Fanning

Marc Imlay

Arnet W. (Skee) Jones

Charisa Morris

Randy Pheobus

Matt T. Salo

Warren Steiner

Jil Swearingen

Land Use Working Group

Jeremy Coon

Hugh Guest

Melanie Hartwig-Davis

Sheila Salo

Education and Outreach Working Group

Nicole Baron Callahan

Cynthia Robinson

Sheila Salo

Teresa Williams