Title 17 LAND USE
Chapter 17.104 Rural Land Use Process
17.104.090 Definitions.
"Cluster Subdivision" means a form of single-family residential
subdivision that creates parcels containing less than thirty-five acres
each, permits housing units to be grouped on sites or lots with dimensions,
frontages, and setbacks reduced from conventional sizes of the current zone
district, allows one residential unit for each seventeen and one-half acre
increment, and where at least two-thirds of the total land area is reserved
for the preservation of open space.
"Buffer" means an area of land used to separate visibly one use from
another or which acts as a separation between two land uses of different
intensity.
"Common Open Space" means land within or related to a cluster
residential development, not individually owned, which is designed and
intended for the common use or enjoyment of the residents of the
development, or the public, which may contain such accessory structures and
improvements as are necessary and appropriate for recreation purposes. A
condition of the cluster residential development approval shall be that the
common open area may not be further subdivided.
"Homeowner’s Association" means a private nonprofit association which
is organized by the developer of a cluster residential development in which
individual owners share common interests in open space and/or facilities and
are in charge of preserving, managing and maintaining the common property,
and enforces certain covenants and restrictions.
"Tract" means an area, parcel, site, piece of land, or property that is
the subject of a development proposal and applications.
"Improvements Agreement" means an agreement guaranteeing to construct
any required public improvements shown in the rural land use documents,
together with collateral which is sufficient, in the judgment of the Board,
to make reasonable provision for the completion of said improvements in
accordance with design and time specifications.
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References: Currituck County, North Carolina
New Hampshire Resource
Net: Cluster Residential Development
Larimer County, Colorado
Jefferson County, Colorado
Douglas County, Colorado
Summit County, Colorado
Colorado Revised Statutes
Pueblo County Code