Environmentally sensitive features definition

Environmentally sensitive features means natural attributes or characteristics whose function as part of a natural system or landscape is considered integral or important. For example, a coastal dune and beach system is an environmentally sensitive feature as is an area of critical habitat or a stream corridor. Environmentally sensitive features of Statewide or regional significance may also be part of the criteria for identification of a Special Resource Area.
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Environmentally sensitive features means, according to the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, the following natural and cultural resources, the disturbance of which tends to impair the physical, biological, social, or aesthetic quality of the resource:
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Environmentally sensitive features means natural attributes or characteristics whose function as part of a natural system or landscape is considered integral or important. For example, a coastal dune and beach system is an environmentally sensitive feature as is an area of critical habitat or a stream corridor. [Environmentally sensitive features are the criteria for mapping the Rural/Environmentally Sensitive Planning Area, Environmentally Sensitive Area Planning Area, Environmentally Sensitive/Barrier Islands Planning Area and Critical Environmental Sites.] Environmentally sensitive features of Statewide or regional significance may also be part of the criteria for identification of a Special Resource Area.
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Related to Environmentally sensitive features

  • Environmentally Sensitive Material means and includes all contaminants, oil, oil products, toxic substances and any other substance (including any chemical, gas or other hazardous or noxious substance) which is (or is capable of being or becoming) polluting, toxic or hazardous.

  • Environmentally sensitive area means any area in which plant or animal life or their habitats are either rare or especially valuable because of their special nature or role in an ecosystem and which could be easily disturbed or degraded by human activities and developments.

  • Contractor Commercially Sensitive Information means the information listed in the Contractor Commercial Sensitive Information Annex to the Contract being information notified by the Contractor to the Authority which is acknowledged by the Authority as being commercially sensitive information.

  • Geologically hazardous areas means areas that because of their susceptibility to erosion, sliding, earthquake, or other geological events, are not suited to the siting of commercial, residential, or industrial development consistent with public health or safety concerns.

  • Environmentally-Limited Resource means a resource which has a limit on its run hours imposed by a federal, state, or other governmental agency that will significantly limit its availability, on either a temporary or long-term basis. This includes a resource that is limited by a governmental authority to operating only during declared PJM capacity emergencies.