The Middletown Planning Board finds that in most circumstances conservation development fulfills the above stated goals to a greater extent than conventional development, as conservation development is designed to:
1. Encourage the preservation of open space for its scenic beauty and the appropriate use thereof.
2. Preserve historical and archeological resources.
3. To protect natural resources, including but not limited to those containing woodlands, unique vegetation, streams, floodplains, wetlands, recharge areas, agricultural lands, wellheads, and vernal pools, by setting them aside from development.
4. Protect the value of real property.
5. Promote more sensitive siting of buildings and roads, and better overall site planning.
6. To provide a buffer between new development and existing streets, neighborhoods, active farmland, and adjacent park or conservation land.
7. Perpetuate the appearance of Middletown's traditional rural/agricultural landscape.
8. Allow landowners a reasonable return on their investment while also reducing the infrastructure costs for development.
9. Facilitate the construction and maintenance of streets, utilities, and public services in a more economical and efficient manner.
10. Offer an alternative to conventional subdivision and land development patterns.
11. To provide for a diversity of lot sizes, building densities, and housing choices to accommodate a variety of age and income groups, and residential preferences, so that the population diversity of the community may be maintained.
12. To create neighborhoods with direct visual and/or physical access to open land, with amenities in the form of neighborhood open space, and with a strong neighborhood identity.
13. To implement adopted land use, transportation and community service policies, as set forth in the Comprehensive Plan.