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2/1911999 DRAFT COPY OF PROPOSED NSA ORDINANCE 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 9. Designs around and preserves sites of historic, azchaeological, or cultural value, and their environs, insofar as needed to safeguard the character of the feature, including stone walls, spring houses, barn foundations, cellar holes, earthworks, burial grounds, etc. 10. Protects rural roadside character and improves public safety and vehicular carrying capacity by avoiding development fronting onto existing public roads. Establishes buffer zones along the scenic corridor of rural roads with historic buildings, stone walls, hedgerows, etc. 11. Landscapes common areas (such as community greens), and both sides of new streets with native specie shade trees and flowering shrubs with high wildlife conservation value. 12. Provides active recreational areas in suitable locations offering convenient access by residents, and adequately screened from nearby houselots. 13. Includes a pedestrian circulation system designed to assure that pedestrians can walk safely and easily on the site, between properties and activities or special features within the neighborhood open space system. All roadside footpaths should connect with off-road trails, which in turn should link with potential open space on adjoining undeveloped parcels (or with existing open space on adjoining developed pazcels, where applicable). 14. Provides open space that is reasonably contiguous, and whose configuration is in accordance with the guidelines contained in the Design and Management Handbook for Preservation Areas, produced by the Natural Lands Trust. For example, fragmentation of open space should be minimized so that these resource areas are not divided into numerous small parcels located in various parts of the development. To the greatest extent practicable, this land shall be designed as a single block with logical, straightforwazd boundaries. Long thin strips of conservation land shall be avoided, unless the conservation feature is linear or unless such configuration is necessary to connect with other streams or trails. The open space shall generally abut existing or potential open space land on adjacent parcels, and shall be designed as part of larger, contiguous, and integrated greenway systems, as per the policies in the Open Space and Recreation section of the Town's Ordinance. SECTION 18. Subsection 15-263(a)(2) is amended to read as follows: 36 (a) All developments shall be constructed and maintained so that they do not cause 37 stormwater-related damage to upstream or downstream properties as provided in the 38 remaining provisions of this section. Compliance with this standard shall be determined in 39 reference to storm events up to the 100-year storm for upstream properties and up to the 40 twenty-five year storm for downstream properties. Effects on downstream drainage 41 facilities within street rights-of--way shall also be evaluated for storm events up to the 42 twenty-five year storm. 43 44 45 1) To achieve this objective, the potential impacts on surface water quantity and 46 quality from all proposed developments requiring special use or conditional use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 27 of 3S