"Site fingerprinting"

Yesterday Lee-Anne mentioned "site fingerprinting" and I wasn't really sure what that was so I looked it up. Here's what I found. I'm not really sure how this is different than a site analysis that includes environmental considerations...

 

1.1 What is Site Fingerprinting?

 

Site fingerprinting is a planning tool used to design communities where protection of natural resources is the primary focus. This process enables the user to view, identify, and analyze the natural, built, economic, and social aspects of a prospective site. Site fingerprinting has five key objectives:

• Identify general site features,
• Determine and locate primary and secondary conservation areas,
• Consider the impact of other important factors such as adjacent land uses, accessibility, transportation and infrastructure availability,
• Use collected information to derive the actual buildable area, and
• Synthesize this information to create various development scenarios which incorporate the natural features of the site."Synthesize this information to create various development scenarios which incorporate the natural features of the site."

 

 

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