UAP 4344 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Environmental Impact Statement, Habitat Conservation Plan, Environmental Impact Assessment

• School: Virginia Tech
• Department: Urban Affairs and Planning
• Course: UAP 4344
• Professor: Fialkoff

Document Summary

Addresses the issue of what can you do if an endangered species is on your land. Allows landowners to enter a plan on how to manage lang that houses a species at risk. Wanted to develop the land 7600 homes and 2 million sq. ft of office space. Committee to save sand bruno mountain sued and said they didn"t want the whole mountain developed. The county intervened, and set up a general plan saying that they can develop a certain amount of land. Crocker didn"t like this, so he sued the county. There was a settlement resulting in the reduction of the amount of land they could use, and two thousand acres giving back to the county and state to manage as protected forest. Mountain steering committee did a biological study, mark, release, recapture system. Came up with a habitat conservation plan. In order to get a permit they needed to go through a environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.