Administrative development plan review required

Within any RR-200 zoning district, special standards of site development shall apply in order to protect surface water reservoirs or their tributary streams and/or groundwater aquifers. Prior to the issuance of any building permit within an RR-200 zoning district, the zoning enforcement officer shall require a development plan to be filed, at a suitable scale. On top of the requirements for development plan review in article 10 and the town's subdivision and land development regulations, the development plan shall show the following information:

• Property boundary lines, with area and dimensions of the property to be developed;

• Vicinity plan showing adjacent or nearby properties, uses, wetlands, streams or surface water reservoirs;

• Topography map of the property;

• Soils map of the property.

The applicant for a building permit shall also indicate proposed uses and development. For the purposes of this section, development shall be defined as any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, buildings or other structures, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation or drilling operations upon the lot.

The applicant shall be required to show, to the extent necessary, the likely impact which the proposed development will have upon surface and subsurface water quality. In particular, the following issues shall be addressed:

• Methods to be used during construction to control soil erosion and sedimentation of wetlands;

• Provision for disposal of stormwater runoff, including an estimate of the existing and proposed release rates, drainage system and stormwater detention measures (if proposed);

• Sewage disposal methods, including an evaluation of the impacts of disposal methods on surface water, soils and vegetation;

• Amount of paved and other impervious surfaces and measures for the preservation of vegetation, impervious surfaces and groundwater infiltration;

• If storage of toxic substances is proposed, methods for prevention of contamination of surface and subsurface water.

(Ord. of 2-3-2025(1), § 1(Exh. A))