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2 1 -acre lots to keep "family- type" developments from becoming large- scale ones, and incentives for large -lots are ways that flexibility is provided in this package. THE FIVE DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS In coming up with development options for the rural buffer, the Committee felt strongly that each option (with one exception) should be permitted by right, since all achieve the goals of the rural buffer in one manner or another. All of the options use voluntary conservation encouraged through open space set - asides and conservation easements in large lots. All allow slightly different overall densities depending on open space and resource protection. Even the most dense of the options the Rural Village has an overall low density. The options utilize a sliding scale that offers slight density bonuses in exchange for the provision of permanent open space. OPTION A is basically the current standard of two acre lot development. It would allow residential development averaging 1.84 acres per lot. This option would utilize voluntary conservation through conservation easements that might protect natural sites within the private open space of a lot. OPTION B encourages those who would go above and beyond the proposed low - density standard to create lots of five acres or more. Such developments would be limited to a maximum of 200 acres per development. OPTION C utilizes open space set - asides in return for slight density bonuses. Property owners determined to develop their land might set aside almost 1/2 of their tract in agriculture or natural forest and develop the other half with lots of almost 1 -acre in size. OPTION D expands upon Option C in that property owners wishing to develop might set aside 2/3 of their tract in agriculture or natural open space and develop on the remaining 1/3 using lots of 1/3 acre average. This development option would require community water and sewer. OPTION E is that of the Rural Village. The Rural Village would be a self - sustaining community that allows residential lots averaging at 1/4 acre surrounding a commercial core designed to provide services such as banking, dining and goods to the village residents only. This "urban -like atmosphere" would be surrounded by vast amounts of open space on all sides, such that it would be buffered from roadways and environmentally - sensitive areas. Four of every five acres in a tract to be developed as a rural village must be left in open space. Only one of every five acres could be developed. Public water and sewer would be required, and therefore these developments would be permitted only in a predefined corridor mutually agreed upon by the County, Towns and OWASA. A minimum tract size of 200 acres would be required. In order to augment the package proposed by the Committee, they identified several issues for further study. (1) the potential use of a Transfer of Development Rights System, (2) the endorsement of a Purchase of Development Rights system where agricultural and natural sites might be preserved (3) the endorsement of the proposed County Monitoring and Maintenance for wastewater systems and others.