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