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Comprehensive Plan Policies Implementation
Ordinance
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Policies = Implementation
Planning & Zoning Commission Hearing –Jan. 10, 2017
One of six implementation initiatives
Why This Ordinance, NOW:
1.Uniformity:Application over Town and
change in political/ administrative leadership
2.Equity: In distribution of burden
3.Clarity: Of what must be considered
4.Defensibility: Assure consistent, not
capricious
5.Protection: Of value and Quality of Life
6.Implementation: Of the Comp Plan
7.Keep Pace with Development:
Structure process for better management
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Structure of the Policies Ordinance:
1.5 SECTIONS related to Policy
Areas:
•Thoroughfares
•Parks, Open Space, and Trails
•Town Design
•Town Facilities
•Storm Water Conservation
2.Land Use is addressed in the TDI
Ordinance passed earlier this
month
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Each Policy Section has 3 Pieces:
1.Regulatory Policy Status: Describes
how this SECTION will be used and its relationship to
the Comp Plan intent and vision as well as its
intended relationship to a development submittal
2.Application Trigger Points:
Describes the conditions which, if manifest, require
that this set of policies be brought into the
development review process.
3.Plan Review/ Submittal
Requirements: Specifies the submittal
requirements (data, plans, etc.) and the assumptions
that should be factored in any analysis (e.g. TIA)
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Sections may Apply Differently:
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TYPE OF SUBMITTAL
APPLICABLE SECTION
APPLICABLE EXCEPTIONS
Thoroughfare Example
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1.Regulatory Policy Status: Resolution
of guiding intent of Thoroughfare Plan at time of
development. Therefore a TIA is required to reveal
traffic impact of development and need for plan
implementation.
2.Application Trigger Points: When an
LOS D or better is indicated by TIA for streets or
intersections serving the development
3.Plan Review/ Submittal
Requirements: Scope of analysis, regional
conditions to be considered, build-out conditions to
be considered, required assumptions for determining
trip demand, and recommended remedial/mitigating
improvements.
Town Facilities Example
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1.Regulatory Policy Status: Preservation
of response time capability.
2.Application Trigger Points:
A.Opportunity to activate a service area
B. Potential of losing the service area capability
C. When the new development (primarily
commercial) exceeds capability of current
equipment.
3.Plan Review/ Submittal
Requirements: An emergency services
Impact Analysis which looks at additional service
personnel required, private supplementary measures,
effect on desired response time, possible alternate
locations if this site cannot provide service.
Storm Water Conservation Example
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1.Regulatory Policy Status: Continuous
initiative to improve water quality and Town will seek
to implement wherever the opportunity exists.
2.Application Trigger Points:
A.When considering any drainage plan or
development in conjunction with a waterway.
B. When implementing the Thoroughfare Plan or
considering road development/ improvement
C. When extending open space, improving/ restoring
natural systems, development of detention/ponds
3.Plan Review/ Submittal
Requirements: Application must show
efforts for water quality and conservation and
document opportunities for such initiatives.
Parks, Open Space, Trails Example
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1.Regulatory Policy Status: Aimed at
view protection, natural preservation, historic continuity, and recreation needs of citizens and is a point of consideration in development review.
2.Application Trigger Points:
A.When a request engages the Comp Plan and intersects with the location of landmark landform, natural waterway, open space.
B. When the request presents opportunity to implement recreation opportunities or connect open spaces.
C. When the plan intersects with historic landscape
3.Plan Review/ Submittal Requirements: The Town must consider
opportunity, available alternative, level of loss, future opportunities preserved or foreclosed.
Town Design Example
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1.Regulatory Policy Status: Limit visual
chaos, promote visual continuity, perpetuate identity.
2.Application Trigger Points:
A.When considering any Thoroughfare, Street, or Trail .
B. When improving any Thoroughfare, Street or Trail
C. When considering any space that will be used by
the public.
D. When considering any development abutting a
portal
3.Plan Review/ Submittal Requirements: The Developer must
demonstrate consideration of Town design palette, forms, textures, color, materials, streetscape, and landscape themes.
Questions
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TDI LOG
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