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Designer/Reviewer Checklist for Cluster Development
References
ITEM YES NO N/A NOTES
Has nonstructural BMP Protect Sensitive Resources
been applied? If not, complete this BMP.
Has a baseline “yield plan” been developed by
applicant?
What municipal ordinance provisions - obstacles
and opportunities - exist for clustering?
Has a Potential Development Area, or comparable,
which avoids Sensitive Resources, been delineated?
Has “yield plan” house/unit count been loaded into
Potential Development Area?
What clustered lot size assumptions are being used?
Compatible with municipal ordinance?
Compare disturbed area/developed area of “yield
plan” with clustered plan?
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Chesapeake Bay Program and Redman/Johnston Associates. Beyond Sprawl: Land Management Techniques to
Protect the Chesapeake Bay, A Handbook for Local Governments, 1997.
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and the Brandywine Conservancy.
Conservation Design for Stormwater Management: A Design Approach to Reduce Stormwater Impacts from Land
Development. Dover, DE, 1997.
Delaware Riverkeeper. 2001. Stormwater Runoff: Lost Resource or Community Asset? Washington Crossing, PA,
2001.
Greenbelt Alliance. “Factsheet: Urban Growth Boundaries,” 1996.
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Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, Vegetative Practices for Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention
Management, 1992.
Herson-Jones, Lorraine M. Riparian Buffer Strategies for Urban Watersheds. Metropolitan Washington Council of
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