Buildout examples show how density rules shape development and farmland preservation
Presenter showed buildout analyses used by other towns to compare minimum-lot-size versus density-based rules, arguing that density limits and clustering can preserve open space while accommodating new housing.
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Roberts presented numerical buildout examples from other Wisconsin towns to show how different regulatory choices affect total potential housing units. Using a hypothetical county example, she said that under minimum-lot-size rules a community could see very large theoretical buildout: "there was potential for over 9,000 different um building units to occur within their town," and she contrasted that with scenarios using maximum-density rules that produced far fewer, more concentrated units.
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