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Attachment 2 i Smart Growth Site Design Attributes DTCC Campus Review and Suggestion 12/5/05 Environmental Protection Preservation of open space benefits the environment by combating air pollution, attenuating noise, controlling wind, providing erosion control, and moderating temperatures. Open space also protects surface and ground water resources by filtering trash, debris, and chemical pollutants before they enter a water system. Open space protects animal and plant habitat, prime forests and places of natural beauty. Suggestions: • Identify and protect specimen trees where possible. Deciduous trees on the south and west side of the building provide shade in the summer to prevent heat islands. • Ensure that the tree protection areas on-site protect clusters of trees wherever possible, and promote future connectivity with other tree stands and undeveloped portions of this and adjoining properties for wildlife movement. • Parking along the main traffic connector should be reduced. Back-out parking into heavy traffic flow creates vehicular conflicts. Parking in front of the building should be limited. The front of the building is a pedestrian focal point. Also, a pedestrian mall connecting the greenway and the future buildings is envisioned, Parking in front of the building can conflict with pedestrian safety. • Eliminating seven parking spaces at the most southern part of the parking lot would protect four mature trees: 2 hickory and 2 white oaks. • Shifting the dumpster pad east would protect a white oak and an uncommon chestnut oak, as well as provide a better view of the building, unobstructed by the dumpster enclosure, from the roadways. • In the southern mast parking lot, shifting the island along the edge of the parking five spaces to the west would allow far the protection of two large white oaks. • Bio-retention areas and parking islands should be re-landscaped with native vegetation suitable for wet areas. If islands are large enough, then only part could be bio-retention and the remainder could be dry areas for student or public benches. • The addition of new tree islands and reduced parking would save 8 additional trees. • Add parking lot tree islands where a cluster exists and monitor grade changes • Prevent disturbance of steep slopes and protect waterways/preserve riparian buffers. Ct\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Locnl Settings\Temp\Att I- DTCC final 120105 doc