CONSERVATION SUBDIVISION
Prairie Pathways is a Conservation Subdivision as determined by the Caledonia Village Ordinance. You may go to the Village of Caledonia website and search for Conservation Subdivision and obtain further information. The following paragraphs taken from the Village Ordinance give a description of the purpose of a conservation subdivision.
Purpose Guide the future growth and development of the community in accordance with the Village’s adopted land use plan.
Preserve the rural character of the Village through the permanent preservation of meaningful open space and sensitive natural resources, including those areas identified in the Village’s resource inventory maps.
Protect and restore environmentally sensitive areas and biological diversity, minimize disturbance to existing vegetation, and manage primary and secondary environmental corridors.
Ensure that appropriate conservation lands will be identified, protected and restored during the development design process to meet future community needs for storm water management, floodwater storage, and ground water recharge.
Provide for a diversity of lot sizes, housing choices and building densities to accommodate a variety of age and income groups.
Use ecological planning principles in the design, construction and long-term management of conservation developments.
Allow housing to be concentrated on portions of a parcel in order to protect, preserve and restore environmentally sensitive areas or agriculture-productive areas on other portions of the parcel.
Preserve scenic views by minimizing visibility of new development from existing roads.
Provide buffering between residential development and non-residential uses.
Provide commonly owned open space areas for passive and/or active recreational use by residents of the development and, where specified, the larger community.
Preserve significant archaeological sites, historic buildings and their settings.
Protect and preserve an interconnected network of open space throughout the Village, and to help establish effective buffers around working farms and along boundaries of existing protected lands (such as parks).