1. CONSERVATION COMMISSION TRAILS come in all shapes and sizes based on community need and vision

2. CONSERVATION COMMISSION A trail should complement the character, environmental, and recreational needs of a community and enhance its resources. Sudbury relies on it’s natural resources to provide ecological goods and services such as water pollution attenuation, maintaining drinking water quality and quantity, providing wildlife habitat, and storage and containment of flood water..

3. CONSERVATION COMMISSION TRAILS should be designed to be in harmony with the ecologic, historic, and financial goals of the community

4. CONSERVATION COMMISSION No one trail design fits the goals and objectives of every community

5. CONSERVATION COMMISSION Sudbury should develop a vision, process, and design to address protection of it’s own unique water resources, wildlife, and history. Sudbury should not adopt a process and design developed for urban areas with sewers and MWRA water supplies.

6. CONSERVATION COMMISSION Feasibility Study did not address a design or provide an outline of a process compatible with local water quality and wildlife goals

7. CONSERVATION COMMISSION Articles 22, 23, & 24 provide an opportunity to more closely assess the likely ability of the trail to be compatible with Sudbury’s Wetlands Bylaw and Sudbury’s EPA Storm Water Permit, as required for any other Sudbury public or private project.

8. Summary (does not need to be a viewing slide) The CC looks forward to active involvement in the next phase of the initial investigation. Any project that MAY ultimately result from these studies and investigations will be reviewed for permitting to the same standards, using the same criteria, applied to all projects in town (except 40B developments). The BFRT is not exempt from these standards. If wetlands, wildlife, and storm water regulations do not permit you to alter the environment in your yard, the BFRT must be held to those same review standards. Allow your Town to develop a plan to meet it’s own needs and deviate from the MHD process by funding the local answers to local questions and concerns raised in the Feasibility Study.