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Killingworth, CT

Muni Initiative Program Town, Year 4

Killingworth is a rural, primarily residential, town that has nonetheless experienced considerable growth over the past decade. Several large-scale municipal projects, and an update to the town’s Plan of Conservation and Development, inspired the application of the town to the Municipal Initiative. As goals, the town wished to develop a resource inventory and in-house GIS expertise to inform a developing open space plan and an upcoming plan update.

The Conservation Commission took the lead early in the process by beginning to assemble a natural resource inventory of the town. The resource inventory is the first-step in natural resource-based planning as espoused by NEMO. As of this writing, the Killingworth resource inventory is in its final phase of development. The inventory contains all the statewide available data pertinent for land use planning, as well as some locally derived maps. The final inventory will also include detailed descriptions of the sources, dates and limitations of the various maps.

The resource inventory will form the basis for several planning exercises in town. An update to the open space plan and the Plan of Conservation and Development are planned to begin this year. Community interest in open space acquisition has continued to grow with the most recent purchase of a 140-acre parcel in February 2006.

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