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L ,,6 <br /> 103 <br /> Energy Use: Located within 10 minutes commuting time from major commercial <br /> uses or an Urban area, and designed so that small-scale commercial <br /> uses provided within developments limit the number of shorter distance <br /> commutes for goods and services. <br /> Existing Land Use: Generally non-urban in character and located in areas adjacent to <br /> Urban or Transition areas. <br /> Agriculture Located in areas where agricultural and forestry activities <br /> &Forestry: may continue within designated open space. <br /> Population Density: Located in areas with an overall low density of population and which <br /> do not exceed two units per acre. <br /> Historic Located in areas where detrimental development impact on <br /> & Cultural• County, state or Federally-acknowledged historic/cultural sites or <br /> County-identified Public Interest Areas does not exist, or can be <br /> mitigated by protection within designated open space. <br /> Section 4.1 - Overview of Implementation Strategies <br /> Proposed Change; Add Open-Space Development Area row to"Lewd Use Element Categories- <br /> Zoning District Matrix! (between Rural Residential and County Residential <br /> Transition). Create a new column from existing"R-2,R-S,R-4, moving"R-2"into <br /> a free-standing cohmmn (see attached table). <br /> PEMR219 Change. Add a new section before existing description of RURAL BUFFER, as shown <br /> below. <br /> OPEN-SPACE DEVELOPMENT AREA.Identifies areas adjacent to Urban or Transition areas <br /> which are generally non-urban in character and which will remain as such. Land in this <br /> category will generally contain low-density residential uses(e g,no more than two units per <br /> acre)which may be served by individual wells and septic tanks or by public water and sewer. <br /> Public water and sewer wrnild be an option available to large-scale developments, or a <br /> cimbination of small developments.All open space residential development with density <br /> greater than one unit per two acres would be required to set aside and preserve significant <br /> amounts of open space (eg, at least 30 percent of the total project acreage or, another <br /> option under consideratiton,at least 80 percent of the developable area of the project after <br /> certain undevelopsble open space areas each as wetlands and steep slopes are excluded).The <br /> applied zoning dlstYietr would include RB(Rural Buffer),AR(Agricultural-Reddential),R-1 <br /> (Low-Density BesidentilaU,and R-9(Low-Moderate Density Residential). <br /> ORDINAN(WBEVIEW CONMU1 =: <br /> PLANNING BOARD REVIEW- <br /> BOARD OF COMbII NIONERS REVIEW- <br />