Watershed-based Zoning

1. Stream Inventory

2. Measure impervious cover

3. Verify impervious cover/ stream quality relationships

4. Project future levels of impervious cover

5. Classify subwatersheds

6. Modify master plans/zoning to correspond

7. Incorporate management priorities from larger

watershed units

8. Adopt specific watershed protection strategies

9. Long term monitoring

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A watershed based zoning approach should include the nine steps discussed here.