Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Preservation of open space should be encouraged in all new Objective: Provide criteria and guidance for future infrastructure • The Township will establish setback standards to allow future
development, with a special emphasis on creating a network development. road corridor upgrades.
of interconnected greenways and/or natural features that
support positive ecosystem functions. Community Engagement
• Permanent preservation of environmentally-significant areas
should be encouraged or required where possible. Objective: Develop and maintain productive alliances for
Bridgewater Township.
• The Township will encourage a variety of natural recreational
areas and facilities that are well-distributed throughout the
Township. • The Township will continue to stress coordination,
communications and close cooperation with neighboring
communities and with County and State agencies.
• The Township strongly supports preservation and restoration
of creeks, streams, soils, aquifers and air quality and will • The Township will honor and work within the existing
develop standards that better protect these resources from annexation agreements with Northfield and Dundas and
contamination, run-off and erosion. will consider improvements to the agreements as needed.
• The Township will encourage opportunities to plant • The Township will actively engage and inform
woodlands, wetlands, restore prairies, or improve other Bridgewater Township residents about on-going planning
natural habitat and will seek grant funding, when available, to and zoning activities.
implement such projects.
• The Township will reach out to local agriculturally-related
• The Township will develop standards that promote • Development projects should fund necessary expansions or organizations and associations to help recognize and
reclamation of existing gravel mine sites and that govern upgrades to all health, safety and welfare related support the rural and farming backbone of the Township.
development and reclamation of any new sites. infrastructures (i.e. transportation, energy, sanitation, fire and
ambulance, etc). The Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map is the same as that shown on
the 2002 Rice County Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map.