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Draft revises lot‑size wording, family‑lot rules and removes separate residential hamlet category
Summary
Staff moved lot size rules from a table into sentence form, clarified family‑lot creation (one family lot from pre‑2007 properties), and removed the separate residential hamlet category—consolidating hamlet districts into a single hamlet designation.
In Section 4 and Section 5 staff explained a set of edits to subdivision rules and district classifications. The draft rewrites minimum lot‑size regulations in sentence form rather than a table, clarifies that a minor subdivision is five lots or fewer, and requires that portions of property outside residential disturbance be placed under a conservation easement on the final plat. Separately, staff proposed removing the separate residential Hamlet (HMR) and Hamlet mixed‑use (HMMU) districts and consolidating them into a single Hamlet district to better support mixed‑use centers and walkability.
Council members asked for confirmation that lot‑size rules had not changed in substantive effect and sought examples of how the new wording would be enforced on a pending application; staff said the changes were primarily clarifying and aimed at enforceability rather than altering the underlying numeric standards.
