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Each building envelope on an estate lot shall adhere to the following spacing standards: <br />Building Envelope Spacing Standards for Estate Lots <br />Minimum spacing between building envelopes on adjacent lots 100 feet <br />Minimum spacing between building envelope and subdivision 150 feet <br />boundary or off-site public street right-of--way <br />Minimum spacing between building envelope and on-site public 50 feet <br />or private street right-of-way <br />Minimum spacing between building envelope and any other lot 30 feet <br />line <br />Minimum spacing between building envelope and wetlands or 100 feet <br />water bodies (lakes, ponds, streams, etc.) <br />® Provided the arrangement, design, and shape of estate lots is such that lots <br />provide satisfactory and desirable sites for building; contribute to the preservation <br />of designated Primary and/or Secondary Conservation Areas; provide convenient <br />access for emergency service vehicles; and satisfy all building envelope spacing <br />standards, the minimum required lot frontage may be reduced to not less than 20 <br />feet for flag lots, and lots fronting on cul-de-sacs and "T" turnarounds. <br />Estate lots shall be restricted against further subdivision through deed restrictions <br />and/or permanent conservation easements. Primary and Secondary <br />Conservation Areas located outside building envelopes shall be restricted against <br />further development through conservation easements and/or deed restrictions. <br />Estate lot subdivision road(s) shall be designed to provide internal access to all <br />lots in the subdivision. Private driveways shall access existing state maintained <br />roads only via subdivision roads providing internal access to lots in the <br />subdivision. <br />v A 150 foot Type F buffer meeting the requirements of Article IV-B-8-e shall be <br />provided along the frontage of all existing state maintained roads adjacent to the <br />subdivision boundaries. In areas of dense mature forest, existing vegetation may <br />be used to fulfill the buffer requirements. If additional planting is required, new <br />plant materials that satisfy the buffer requirements of Article IV-B-8-e shall be <br />installed and maintained in accordance with provisions of Article IV-B-8-f. <br />SECTION (V-B-10, SUBSECTION D.2 (DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, CONSERVATION-CLUSTER <br />OPTION) IS REWRITTEN TO READ AS FOLLOWS. <br />D.2 Conservation-Cluster Option <br />A conservation-cluster subdivision is one in which building lots are grouped together <br />through a transfer of allowable density within the subdivided tract provided the transfer <br />of density within the subdivision does not increase the average density in any overlay <br />zoning district. In aconservation-cluster subdivision designed with density transfer, lots <br />