(A) (1) The town is a unique community and it is within the public interest and general welfare of the town to regulate the site design and building form and mass encompassing all residential structures.
(2) Site design shall include grading, surface water drainage, preservation and restoration of existing flora, all landscape features, including drives, walks, patios, freestanding walls, fencing, and plantings.
(B) Of particular concern is preservation of the streetscape, signs, lighting, trees, and bushes alongside the public thoroughfare. Form and mass shall refer to size and shape of the residential structures.
(1) Site materials and features. The intent of these provisions is to encourage site materials and features which blend with the existing visual environment, e.g., native flora and curvilinear roadways.
(a) Built of planted landscape elements.
1. Permitted. All native flora and materials, (e.g., trees, bushes, flowers, stone, asphalt or concrete pavement, concrete masonry paving units); and
2. Prohibited. Abrupt physical configurations, (e.g., site revisions causing excessive tree removal, land slope revisions greater than natural repose).
(b) Site lighting. Permitted; low-intensity security or decorative lighting, up to two street lamps in front yards not to exceed eight-feet in height and located a minimum of ten feet from the edge of the road.
(2) Prohibited.
(a) High-intensity flood or spot lighting of either the buildings or landscape features, neon. No flickering or flashing lights and all lighting shall be shielded such that light is not directed toward adjacent residential properties; and
(b) Examples of shielding should be as follows.
(3) Building forms and mass.
(a) Intent. The intent of these provisions is to encourage exterior building forms which blend with the majority of existing residential structures and natural features of the town.
(b) Roof form.
1. The following roof forms are encouraged. Gable, mansard, hip, gambrel, shed, pyramidal, salt box, barrel, vault, and arch; and
2. The following roof forms are discouraged as inconsistent with existing structures in the town. Trapezoidal, butterfly, complex curvilinear (screw, bullet, mushroom shape), conical, polygonal (except as roof of minor tower), A-frame, Quonset huts, geodesic domes, and roundettes.
(Ord. passed 10-19-1983; Ord. passed 6-8-2021)