Policy Recommendations

Below is a list of policy recommendations for the Charlestown Planning Commission. Efforts should be made by the Town Planner to address these recommendations with the Commission.

Short-Term

• Determine how survey results resonate with planning commission, particularly objectives for preserving openspace.
  
  
• Use online and GIS hyper maps to inform policy decisions that affect the areas included in the survey.
  
  
• Use the predictive GIS openspace model to understand how using resident objectives for acquiring openspace will result in the most efficient preservation of natural and cultural resources.

Long-Term

• Pursue strategic management options to preserve important openspace sites.

• Pursue the Internet as a means of garnering public input and fostering community around future planning projects of this nature.
  

On-Going

• Further investigate each inventoried survey site to expand qualitative data on the cultural resources present at each site.
  
  
• Investigate suggested sites to expand the inventory and prioritization process.