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16 <br />Buffers: <br />A 30-foot type A landscape buffer is proposed along Sunrise Road. (The <br />type A buffer is `composed of deciduous and/or evergreen vegetation, <br />farming semi-opaque intemhittent visual obstructions from the ground to <br />a height of at least 30 feet.) <br />Water-Sewer: <br />Private wells and septic tanks. <br />A septic easement is proposed on lots 5 and 6 to serve lot 7. <br />lJMWgpmentJ!MNs. Schedule. an a don <br />Planning Board: <br />First Action: Planning Board to consider Concept Plan . <br />Options: <br />1. Action within forty-five (45) days of this meeting: <br />2. or within such .furthertime consented to in writing by the applicant. <br />3. If the Planning Board fails to act within the specified time period, <br />approval is dented without conditions. <br />4. If approved the applicant shall have one (1) year to prepare and file a <br />Preliminary Plat application. If a Preliminary Plat has not been <br />submitted within the specified time limit, the Concept Plan shall <br />became null said void. <br />StffReconimndadon <br />The Planning Staff recommends approval of the Concept Plan far <br />Sunrise Road Subdivision. <br />Selkirk stater dais the property is in a really well wooded area. He asked <br />if, with 2 acre lots, the way the houses are to be placed, would a good <br />part of the property by left with trees. <br />Phil Post, engincer, responded yes. He stated that the road would be a <br />very narrow corridor and would use only a Mall portion of the lot. He <br />stated that there would not be much clear cutting and the area. would <br />remain nicely wooded. <br />Barrows asked how big is the parcel to the north of the property. Kirk <br />responded that the subject parcel is 21 acres and according to the tax map <br />the northern property is approximately 30-35 aces. <br />Barrows asked if the staff would recommend stab-outs. She stated the: <br />this ar+r"a looks like a lot of cul-de-sacs. Kirk responded dw there are <br />cul-de-sacs already to the west and east. He stated that the property to <br />the north has quite a bit of frontage on Whitfield Road. He noted that <br />staff did not feel a need for another connector to Whitfield since this <br />property is near the intersection of Sunrise Road and Whitfield Road. <br />Woods. noted that there does not scan to be any topographical detail <br />information on the application. Kirk responded that the topographical <br />information is not required on a Concept Plan. Post described the <br />topographical arm on the map. He pointed out the good soil am, the <br />hilltops, slopes and the drainagowvays. He also pointed out the wooded