4B - Ordinance Amendment: Shoreland COnservation Design

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COMMUNITYGROWTH GO Of I N S T I T U T E Pequo ILI E*xperts iru Small To T'lawrirl4 E. Amounts and types of ownership of undeveloped lands. F. Size of the parcel and amount,if any,of shoreline. 3. Design criteria for all new Conservation Subdivisions and PUD's. A. Minimum Size. All developments must contain at least 3 contiguous acres of buildable area with a lot width of 400 feet. A planned unit develepment shaH eeRtain a minimum ef diree unit sites. or B. Buffer. A 50 400t vegetative buffer will be maintained or established along the boundary of the PUD. There shall be no units or impervious coverage within this buffer with the exception of access roads or utilities. The buffer will serve to screen the adjacent parcels and the lake, where applicable, from the units within the PUD. The screening will contain both low growing (e.g. brush) and high growing (e.g. trees) vegetation. Adjacent parcels and the lake, where applicable, shall be a minimum of 50% screened, as measured by the Planning and Zoning Administrator, from the adjacent parcel or the lake during leaf-on conditions. An earthen berm may be used where, in the opinion of the Planning Commission, the existing vegetation cannot be enhanced to meet the 50% screening criteria. Use of a berm shall not preclude the maintaining of a 5o-foot buffer or the installation of screening as part of the berm. C. Minimum Structure Setbacks: Shoreland Class Ordinary high water level structure setback(feet) Natural Environment 200 Recreational Development 1SO General Development 120 Forested and transition river 150 preservedi (i) Open spaee shall be left in its natural state and sha-H b-e ems. (2) DweRing units er sites, read right ef way, land eevered b and treatment areas, struetures and landseaped areas shaH net be ineluded in the eemptitafien of minimum epett spaee. development ift their iiatural state, and areas eentaining . Pequot Lakes Staff Report 4(b)-3 January 15,2009