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This Article is designed and enacted for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, convenience, order, prosperity and welfare of the present and future inhabitants of the Town by:

1. Encouraging new subdivision developments to relate to the Town’s historic development pattern.

2. Promoting compact, well-defined, sustainable neighborhoods that enhance the Town’s character.

3. Creating livable neighborhoods that foster a sense of community and reduce dependency on private vehicles.

4. Encouraging the proper arrangement of streets in relation to existing or planned streets and ensuring that streets facilitate safe, efficient and pleasant walking, biking and driving.

5. Providing a variety of lot sizes and housing types in every neighborhood.

6. Protecting sensitive natural and historic areas and the Town’s environmental quality.

7. Providing for adequate and convenient open spaces for traffic, utilities, access of fire apparatus, recreation, light and air and for the avoidance of congestion of population.

8. Providing open spaces for adequate storm water management.

9. Providing adequate spaces for educational facilities.

10. Providing protection from geologic hazards and flood-prone areas.

11. Ensuring compliance with this Code, the Community Design Principles and Development Standards (Article 2), and consistency with the Comprehensive Plan to the extent such consistency is provided for herein.

12. Regulating such other matters as the Board of Trustees may deem necessary in order to protect the best interest of the public. (Ord. 1371 § 6, 2022)