Wildlife Habitat

Site Design

S1 Natural Systems

S2 Wildlife Habitat

S3 Unique Features

S4 Built Environment

S5 Systems of Movement

Preserve, Restore and Enrich Wildlife Habitat

INTENT

Urban growth often comes at the expense of natural habitat, degrading and fragmenting sensitive plant communities, wetlands, and riparian corridors that provide habitat for local fish, wildlife and pollinators. New development in Bainbridge Island should protect and restore habitat on site and connect to local habitat corridors.

Guidelines

a. Incorporate existing natural habitat and landscape into site design.

b. Connect new landscaped areas and fragmented habitat to networks of open space and larger habitat corridors wherever possible.

c. Consider porous fencing, hedging and shrubs to define property edges, or gaps in fencing and reduce barriers to wildlife.

d. Promote continuous habitat through private or communal landscaped areas and repair gaps in identified wildlife corridors wherever possible.

Cedar Creek Watershed Education Center in North Bend, maintains a continuous wildlife habitat along the shore of Rattlesnake lake with green roofs and native plantings.

Dockside Green in Victoria, BC is built around system of stormwater treatment ponds that run into the upper harbor and create a network of wetland habitat.

S6 Public Realm