(a) Purposes. A residential conservation development is created as a conditional residential use to encourage flexibility in design of single family residential development and preserve the natural, scenic, and historic qualities of the Village. The open space areas should be as contiguous as the site permits.
(b) Minimum Standards for Residential Conservation Development. The following standards are required as conditions to be eligible as a residential conservation development.
(1) Minimum development area | 25 acres |
(2) Water/sewer | Public water supply and sanitary sewer required |
(3) Lot area to open space | 40% minimum required open space |
(4) Accessory uses | Same as Section 1153.02(d) |
(5) Density (units/gross acres) | 1 unit per 1.5 gross acre |
(6) Minimum lot area per unit single family | 17,000 square feet |
(7) Minimum lot width at building line single family | 100 feet |
(8) Minimum yards (feet) | |
Front | 35 feet |
Side - single family | 20 feet between units with minimum of 5 feet from the property line |
Rear - single family | 40 feet not including uncovered landscape features (decks, patios, courtyards, etc.) |
(9) Minimum square footage of dwelling single family | 2,400 sq. ft. |
(10) 100 feet open space between residential conservation development and a Residential District (100 feet measured from middle of the right of way).
(11) Maintenance of thirty percent (30%) of predevelopment forested areas.
(12) Use of low impact best management practices (BMP) for minimization of run off or potential maintenance of predevelopment time of concentration and run off volume.
(13) Sixty percent (60%) of lots adjacent to buffer or open space.
(c) Open Space Calculation Inclusions. Land dedicated for detention basins or to the Village for public use (excluding public streets, roads, highways, rights of way or easements) may be included in the open space calculations.
(d) Density Bonus. The density may be increased by computation of a Density Bonus based on adjustments up to five percent (5%) not to exceed a total of twenty-five percent (25%) by meeting the criteria listed below. (Example: a 100 acre conservation development begins with a 67 dwelling site allowance. Assuming that a developer meets three of the criteria listed below, the Planning Commission may grant up to a fifteen percent (15%) Density Bonus.)
(1) Extension of infrastructure that benefits the Village (e.g., water main extension).
(2) Solutions to community problems that affect health, safety and welfare (e.g., traffic, storm water).
(3) Dedication of public open space for Village use.
(4) Maintenance of each additional five percent (5%) of predevelopment forested area, up to five percent (5%) Density Bonus for each additional five percent (5%) of prevelopment forested area.
(5) For each five percent (5%) increase in open space.
(6) Each additional ten percent (10%) of lots adjacent to buffer or open space, up to five percent (5%) Density Bonus for each additional ten percent (10%) of lots adjacent to buffer or open space.
(7) Plans that delineate preservation of substantial natural or historic features in the open space reserve.
(e) General Conditions. Except as modified herein, all other conditions set forth in the Codified Ordinances of the Village of Boston Heights pertaining to residential building and development shall apply to residential conservation development.
(f) Application Procedures. All applications for residential conservation development shall be made to the Board of Zoning Appeals for approval or disapproval.
An applicant is required to set forth in its application the applicant’s request for any density bonus. The applicant will set forth with specificity the basis for requesting a density bonus. The grant or denial of a density bonus shall be made by the Planning Commission after considering any relevant information that is brought for consideration before the Board.
If an applicant is approved by the Planning Commission for residential conservation development, the applicant shall enter into a development agreement with the Village that shall detail how the residential conservation development is to be developed in accordance with the standards of this chapter and shall detail the grant of any density bonuses and how the applicant shall meet the conditions necessary to meet the density bonus standards.
(Ord. 10-2007. Passed 4-11-07; Ord. 15-2007. Passed 8-8-07.)