Design standards

In order to be approved as a rural residential compound, the proposed subdivision must be determined by the Planning Board to promote one or more of the following design standards in a manner that is superior to a conventional subdivision of the subject property:

• A. Reduce the number of lots having egress onto existing streets;
• B. Reduce the number of curb cuts on existing Town or state roads;
• C. Be constructed in a manner which will provide a visual buffer between the new home(s) as well as the public street which will minimize the visual impact;
• D. Produce less irregularly shaped or contorted lot configurations; or
• E. Be constructed in a manner that preserves primary and secondary resource areas on the tract or adjacent to the tract, such as visual buffer (topography, trees and shrubs) along streets and between properties, wetlands, watercourses or bodies, open fields, meadows, wildlife habitat, steep slope, or other significant areas.