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127 - PLANNING FRAMEWORK AND APPLICATION The framework for the Bingham Township Plan begins with organizing concepts. These concepts are policy statements which create the foundation of the Plan. They state general consensus as to what patterns of growth are desirable for the Township. The concepts take into account a number of variables, including existing patterns of development, environmental constraints, and the stated desires of Bingham Township residents and landowners. . The second component of the framework consists of future projections for population, housing stock, and land requirements. These projections do not comment on the desirability of the growth expected. They merely indicate, using historical trends, the amount of growth expected in the Township during the plan period if those trends persist. These components of the framework are then used to create allocation guidelines. Criteria are established which distribute land into Land Use Plan categories initially defined in the body of the Orange County Land Use Plan. Distribution is reflected in both text and map form. 410 Organising Concepts The following Township policy statements represent the organizing concepts around which the Land Use Plan for Bingham Township is constructed: 1) The agricultural and rural residential character of the Township should be maintained; 2) Existing and potential water supply watersheds in the Township should be developed in a way that will minimize impacts on water quality and neither conflict with agricultural activities nor push a disproportionate amount of development into watersheds not part of a public water supply; 3) The White Cross area has the characteristics of a rural community, which should be enhanced; 4) Residential development that does occur in the Township should be planned for areas that will not create negative impacts on agriculture or potential and existing water supply watersheds; 410 3.11-13