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M M a ff 4 Me 5 1 concerns of the rural buffer residents (including those on the 2 Committee) the task force decided that a fifth unstated goal of the 3 study should include finding a way to achieve the aforementioned goals 4 while at the same time providing flexibility for rural residents who 5 have no desire to carve their entire tract into two -acre building 6 lots. The allowance of current permitted uses, the provision of up to 7 2 1 -acre lots to keep "family- type" developments from becoming large - 8 scale ones, and incentives for large -lots are ways that flexibility is 9 provided in this package. 10 11 THE FIVE DEVELOPMENT OPTIONS 12 In coming up with development options for the rural buffer, the 13 Committee felt strongly that each option (with one exception) should 14 be permitted by right, since all achieve the goals of the rural buffer 15 in one manner or another. All of the options use voluntary 16 conservation encouraged through open space set - asides and conservation 17 easements in large lots. All allow slightly different overall 18 densities depending on open space and resource protection. Even the 19 most dense of the options the Rural Village has an overall low 20 density. The options utilize a sliding scale that offers slight 21 density bonuses in exchange for the provision of permanent open space. 22 23 24 OPTION A is basically the current standard of two acre lot )25 development. It would allow residential development averaging 1.84 /26 acres per lot. This option would utilize voluntary conservation 27 through conservation easements that might protect natural sites within 28 the private open space of a lot. 29 OPTION B encourages those who would go above and beyond the 30 proposed low- density standard to create lots of five acres or more. 31 Such developments would be limited to a maximum of 200 acres per 32 development. 33 OPTION C utilizes open space set - asides in return for slight 34 density bonuses.. Property owners determined to develop their land 35 might set aside almost 1/2 of their tract in agriculture or natural 36 forest and develop the other half with lots of almost 1 -acre in size. 37 OPTION D expands upon Option C in that property owners wishing to 38 develop might set aside 2/3 of their tract in agriculture or natural 39 open space and develop on the remaining 1/3 using lots of 1/3 acre 40 average. This development option would require community water and 41 sewer. 42 OPTION E is that of the Rural Village. The Rural Village would 43 be a self- sustaining community that allows residential lots averaging 44 at 1/4 acre surrounding a commercial core designed to provide services 45 such as banking, dining and goods to the village residents only. This 46 "urban -like atmosphere" would be surrounded by vast amounts of open 47 space on all sides, such that it would be buffered from roadways and 48 environmentally - sensitive areas. Four of every five acres in a tract 49 to be developed as a rural village must be left in open space. Only 50 one of every five acres could be developed. Public water and sewer )51 would be required, and therefore these developments would be permitted 52 only in a predefined corridor mutually agreed upon by the County,