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dr/"e , 'C. <br /> Article IX <br /> ZONING DISTRICTS AND ZONING MAP <br /> Part I. Zoning Districts <br /> Section 15-135 Residential Districts Established. <br /> (a) The following basic residential districts are hereby <br /> established: R-20, R-15, R-10, R-7.5, R-3, R-2, R-R, R-S.I.R. , <br /> and R-S.I .R.-2. The purpose of each of the foregoing residential <br /> districts is to secure for the persons who reside there a <br /> comfortable, healthy, safe, and pleasant environment in which to <br /> live, sheltered from incompatible and disruptive activities that <br /> properly belong in non-residential districts. (AMENDED 5/12/81; <br /> 12/7/83; 2/4/86) <br /> (b) The following watershed residential districts are also <br /> established: R-80 and R-40. All land within these districts is <br /> located within the University Lake Watershed, and while they are <br /> designed to achieve the objectives identified in subsection (a) , <br /> they are also intended to protect the community water supply by <br /> allowing residential development of the land within the <br /> University Lake Watershed only at reduced density levels . <br /> (AMENDED 12/7/83) <br /> (c) The R-R (rural residential ) district is designed to <br /> accommodate the residential and related uses as well as several <br /> additional uses that would be appropriate in the more sparsely <br /> populated areas of the town's joint planning transition area or <br /> extraterritorial planning area, but that would be Inappropriate <br /> within the more intensively developed residential zones. (AMENDED <br /> 11/14/88) <br /> (d) The R-S.I.R. ' (suitable for intensive residential) zone <br /> is designed (1) to encourage high denisty residential development <br /> that is compatible with the housing element of the town's Compre- <br /> hensive Land Use Plan, and ( ii) to locate this high density <br /> development in areas most suitable for it, thereby reducing <br /> pressure for growth in less desirable locations and reducing <br /> urban sprawl. Land in this zone is deemed especially suitable <br /> for intensive residential development because of ( i) the <br /> availability of police , fire, and sanitation service at low <br /> marginal cost due to existing service patterns, ( ii ) the <br /> availability of public water and sewer service, (iii) the ample <br /> road system serving the area, (iv) the compatibility of existing <br /> development in the area with high density residential development, <br /> and (v) the compatibility of high density residential development <br /> with environmental concerns , especially water quality. <br /> Developers are encouraged to construct housing that is consistent <br /> with the town's housing objectives through density bonuses, as <br /> set forth in Section 15-182.1 . <br /> Page 1 <br />