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9 structure (containing or one or more uses) would be permitted by right on any lot greater than two acres in size. Otherwise, a Class A Special Use Permit and Site Plan must be approved by the Board of Commissioners. A final option is simply to establish a site plan approval procedure involving only the Planning Board. Although the Ordinance Review Committee did not support such an option, one is presented as Option #4 below. d. What time frames are involved in staff, Planning Board, and Commissioner approval options? Staff has developed a specific step-by-step approach to securing site plan approval. The total time involved in such an approval would be 33 calendar days.Approval through a Special Use Permit process would take 85 calendar days.An abbreviated process;i.e., site plan approval by the Planning Board would take 40 days. These times represent the fastest that an application would be approved and are illustrated on the attached calendars.) OPTION#2-SUBDIVISION APPROACH(RECOMMENDED BY ORDINANCE REVIEW COMMITTEE) The option recommended by the Ordinance Review Committee is to amend the Subdivision Regulations to provide for Planning Board and Commissioner involvement in project approval. This could be accomplished as follows: 1. Amend Section II:Definitions and Section III-B:Classification of Subdivisions to change the definition of"minor subdivision" to read as follows: Subdivision, Minor - A division of a tract of land that is not located in an Economic Development zoning district and that does not: The addition of the boldface italics wording would require that all subdivisions in an Economic Development zoning district be approved as"major"subdivisions,thus requiring Planning Board and Commissioners approval. 2. Amend Section IV-C: Interim Development Standards by changing the Section number to Section IV-D. 3. Add a new Section 117-C: Economic Development Standards to read as follows: IV-C. Economic Development Standards In reviewing subdivision proposals for land located in an Economic Development zoning district,the Planning Staff and Planning Board shall consider the overall design of the proposal in terms of compliance with applicable performance standards and design criteria contained in Article 6.29 of the Zoning Ordinance - Development Standards for Economic Development(ED)Districts.All such proposals shall include the entire parcel or lot of record as of , 1994, the effective date of this amendment: The simplicity of this option is that it utilizes an existing procedure.Since many parcels in the Economic Development zoning districts are large, a developer would be subject to subdivision approval. While site plans for each site would not be required,the Planning Board and Board of Commissioners could address broader issues such as access points, traffic impacts and circulation, utility service, etc. By requiring that the entire parcel be included in the subdivision, piecemeal development of larger tracts would be avoided. Conditions could be included in the Resolution of Approval, providing the parameters for staff to use in approving individual site plans and for the developer in terms of determining when plan amendments were necessary. OPTION#3 -PLANNED DEVELOPMENT(RECOMMENDED BY ORDINANCE REVIEW COM 1 TEE) This option is nothing more than the existing language adopted on March 2 by the Board of Commissioners. Optional wording has been provided(in boldface italics)in the event that the Board of Commissioners wishes to amend Article 7.