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9 <br /> AN ALTERNATIVE PACKAGE OF DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS <br /> - Based on Community Meeting Comments <br /> In early-February 1994, staff and Rural Character Study Committee chair Clint Burklin met to <br /> discuss incorporating community meeting comments into a third alternative set of development <br /> options that reflecting desires for different options in different areas. This work, with minor <br /> recent modifications, is provided to the Board of Commissioners as an alternative for discussion. <br /> NORTHERN ORANGE <br /> Summary of what we heard...two-acre lots OK (but don't mandate larger than two)...one-acre <br /> lots too suburban (increases traffic and nuisance to farms)...4.6-acre lots with incentives good <br /> idea...OSD's don't really fit - the clusters look too urban...If allow OSD's, lower density to 1 <br /> lot/acre overall—Don't like alternative systems. <br /> Alternative 3? <br /> 1. All other RCS strategies as adopted. <br /> 2. Meet all applicable design guidelines. <br /> 3. Because no water/sewer expectations or desire, lower the density of options in keeping <br /> with character of area. <br /> Option I: Five-acre* lots with incentives (0.21 lots per gross acre) <br /> Option II: Two-acre* lot conventional (0.51 lots per gross acre) <br /> Option III: Five one-acre lots per lot of record <br /> Option IV: Open Space Developments (OSD's) (2 levels): <br /> IV(a). 33% open space. Meet all design guidelines. Number of lots based on site yield - <br /> up to maximum of 0.67 lots per gross acre, or 67 lots per 100 acres. Water and Sewer: <br /> Wells and septic tanks. <br /> IV(b). 50% open space. Meet all design guidelines. Number of lots = 0.84 lots per gross <br /> acre, or 84 lots per 100 acres. Water via wells or community water system, wastewater <br /> by low-pressure or gravity community wastewater systems (only if monitored by the <br /> Health Department WTOP program). <br /> In Little River watershed... <br /> • Allow both IV(a) and IV(b) open-space developments, modified as below: <br /> • For IV(a) and IV(b), require two-acre lots overall (0.51 lots per gross acre overall), but allow <br /> impervious surface bonus on the developed portion of site (where overall impervious surface <br /> limit is still less than 12%, perhaps as low as 8%). For IV(b), allow a slightly higher <br /> impervious rate on the developed portion, because of greater open-space set-aside. Require <br /> open space be used to widen and enhance stream buffers. <br /> In Upper Eno Critical Area...Allow open-space developments, but only in keeping with two- <br /> acre/6% impervious standard. <br /> 1 <br />