A. Create, enhance and foster public health, safety and general welfare in the area known as the Lincoln County land act area (Toquop township). Ensure that this undeveloped area of over thirteen thousand (13,000) acres that is located far from existing county services and facilities is planned appropriately as a region considering limited county resources, surrounding land uses and jurisdictions and lack of infrastructure in the area. This region is to be developed to provide for high quality public services that complement existing services throughout the county.
B. Ensure that development in the Toquop planning area provides for a positive benefit to the county tax base (as described in the fiscal impact report) capable of sustaining long term growth.
C. Encourage innovations in residential, commercial and industrial development so that the Toquop area provides unsurpassed opportunities for housing, education, recreation, shopping and employment for Lincoln County residents.
D. The general intent for the Toquop area is to create an ideal, safe, and healthy community and environment where people can live, work, and play to the fullest extent. Goals will include traditional village designs, providing for a market driven mixture of development, incorporating multiple lifestyle concepts to maximize absorption rates and planning flexibility for the developer and planning and support certainty for public services and facilities.
E. Provide for harmonious selection of uses and groupings of buildings, parking areas, circulation and open spaces. Design and development standards are set forth within this title and are intended to act as a minimal rule for all development in the area. Proposing elements beyond these standards is highly encouraged (examples: more landscaping than minimum standards is always desirable, more community protection facilities than required, etc.).
F. Provide for an integrated community system including trails and extensive pedestrian/bikeway systems, and locations for future mass transit facilities encouraging public access to areas throughout Toquop without the use of a car. Parking requirements will meet specific land use needs. Developers will be asked to incorporate features such as trails, pathways, cart paths, bike facilities and future transit locations to reduce dependence on automobiles.
G. Encourage conservation of natural resources (including known water resources) and protection of air quality through the encouragement of home occupations and mixed use zoning to reduce vehicle trips, planning for mass transit and alternative transportation, limiting turf landscaping to reduce water usage, protection of the natural landscape by minimizing the amount of grading and anchoring neighborhoods and roadways with existing topographical features to reduce erosion and ground disturbance.
H. Maintain consistency with the policies and goals of the Lincoln County master plan, water plan and the public land policy plan.
I. Provide for orderly development of the Toquop township planning area and to promote high quality development and supporting service for its residents including work force housing options. (Ord. 2007-01, 3-5-2007)