ORD-2003-116 Amendments to Open Space Standards for Flexible Development Subdivisions

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21 Unless accepted for dedication or otherwise agreed to by the county, another unit of local government, the state or a private nonprofit land conservancy, the cost and responsibility of maintaining open space and any facilities located thereon shall be borne by the property owner and/or homeowner's association. Section F EVALUATION CRITERIA All site planning for open space should evidence a consideration of the specific nature of the parcel being developed and a creativity in design which maximizes aspects of functionality. At Far any given site, the types of resources may vary widely in importance ; (e.g., a natural area compared to a historic site) and bikeA49e, er each type of resource may have areas of greater or lesser significance 4e.g. a notable example of local vernacular building traditions compared to a much altered older home). Priorities for conserving such resources should therefore be based upon a thorough site analysis and an understanding of what is more special, unique, noteworthy, environmentally sensitive and/or historic as compared with other similar features of different types of resources. In evaluating the layout of lots and open space, the following criteria will be considered as indicating design appropriate to the site's features and meeting the intent of the Flexible Development standards. Whereas diversity and originality in lot layout are encouraged, it is recognized that not all objectives may be achieved on a given site. Each applicant must therefore achieve the best possible relationship between development and preservation objectives. F.1 General Criteria The following criteria apply to all Flexible Development projects: The shape and placement of the open space shall be reasonably contiguous, coherently configured, and shall abut existing or potential open space on adjacent properties, and shall be beneficial to stated functional open space goals. leg, H&_mw segments must - avoided emeept-in the ease of tn4l -.-- s--e-am raeffider-s er- landscape buffers adjoining t + rights c y and/er- neighbe&eed b ff Open space should not be overly fragmented or in long narrow segments (except in the case of pedestrian paths, stream or wildlife corridors, greenbelt paths . or landscape buffers adjoining street rights -of -way and/or neighborhood boundaries). Electively sited individual open space areas (e.g. Secondary Preservation Areas) should typically have agglomerated shapes. Open space shall be connected, when applicable and reasonable, to other open space in the same project and/or to existing or potential off -site open space or pedestrian paths in land parcels adjacent to the Flexible Development area.