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The COD is innovative as a performance zoning district. It requires
preservation of natural areas not only for their rolo in maintaining
economically important environmental functions such as supporting tho
fishing industry and minimizing flooding, but also for their inherent
values as ecological communities. Savannahs, for example, contain
numerous scientifically and educationally interesting collections of small
plants. Tho COD's performanca drainage standards, clustering capability,
and othor provisions give flexibility to the dovolopor as long as tho
final result achieves tho COD's purposes. The specificity of the COD's
performance standards and revlow criteria, however, eliminate the
potontial burden of discretionary or arbitrary slto review of developments
by the County in the administration of the COD.
National Agricultural Lands Study, 1981. "Tho Protection of
Farmland: A Referenced Guidebook for Stato and Local Governments,"
USGPO, 1981 0 - 335-616
Planning Advisory Service 1975, "Performance Controls for Sensitive
Lands" PAS No. 307-308.
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