Application process

A. Preapplication conference. Prior to submittal of a rural residential compound application, it is required that at least one preapplication meeting be conducted with the Planning Board. The preapplication submittal can be a sketch based on existing plat maps, but must accurately depict the site layout 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 and other features of the property to be subdivided.
B. Preliminary plan.
- (1) Applicants for a rural residential compound shall present a preliminary plan that complies with the requirements of the Chapter 300, Subdivision of Land, for a minor subdivision, and which also accurately depicts the following information:
  - (a) Center-line profile of proposed common private way;
  - (b) Location of any rivers, streams or wetlands;
  - (c) Proposed drainage;
  - (d) Proposed utilities and road construction design;
  - (e) Proposed lot lines and building sites;
  - (f) Scale and area of vegetative screening separating the common private way and rural residential compound lots from adjacent residentially zoned property;
  - (g) Location, width and other evidence of any recorded easements or rights-of-way on or adjacent to the subject property.
- (2) A registered professional engineer, land surveyor, architect, or landscape architect must prepare the preliminary plan, unless specifically waived by the Planning Board.
C. Final plan. The final plan shall comply with the requirements of Chapter 300, Subdivision of Land, for a final plan for a minor subdivision and must be prepared by a registered professional engineer and/or land surveyor.
D. Application fee. A filing fee consistent with the schedule in Chapter 300, Subdivision of Land, § 300-38, will be submitted by the applicant with the application, to cover costs of processing and review. In the event that the Board determines that unusual or exceptional circumstances necessitate expert technical review that exceeds the cost of the filing fee, the applicant shall pay the cost of that expertise.
Editor's Note: See Ch. 368, Fees.