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Commission asks staff to build simple LID worksheets and diagrams for small projects
Summary
To avoid requiring engineers on small projects, commissioners asked staff to create square-footage worksheets, pre-drawn diagrams and an appendix or handbook references so lay applicants can meet first-flush and low-impact development standards.
Commissioners and staff agreed Aug. 5 that much of the town's technical guidance should be captured in short worksheets, diagrams and an appendix the town can update separately from the zoning text. The objective is to allow small-scale projects to comply without the cost and delay of hiring an engineer for relatively modest new impervious areas.
"You put in your square footage, and then they have...and it has a multiplier...and then you're done," one participant said, describing a one- or two-page worksheet used in other towns. Staff said such checklists already exist elsewhere and recommended adopting similar forms as town appendices or a 'recipe book' to enable unengineered solutions for low-end projects. The commission asked Trevor and staff to provide sample forms and diagrams at the next meeting.
