Green Infrastructure Plan:
Linking Hazard Mitigation to Community Conservation and Recreation Objectives
In 2001 The Conservation Fund, in partnership with the University of North Carolina's Department of City and Regional Planning, the City of Kinston, and the County of Lenoir, developed a plan entitled Kinston-Lenoir County Green Infrastructure Plan for the Neuse River Floodplain. Using geographic information systems technology, the Fund and UNC analyzed the land to assess its suitability for conservation or recreational uses.
Green Infrastructure as Economic Development
In 2002, The Conservation Fund once again collaborated with the University of North Carolina's Department of City and Regional Planning, the City of Kinston, and the County of Lenoir to create a plan entitled Linking Natural and Historic Assets: Green Infrastructure As Economic Development in Lenoir County, NC. The plan identifies opportunities for the City and County to leverage existing natural and historic assets for a economic development strategy based on recreation and heritage tourism.
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