Requires business owners, residential property owners, institutions, and event permit holders in Boulder to provide separate and convenient compostable material containers and collection services.
Covered “food enterprises” must provide organics diversion services.
Analyzes the structure and implementation of organic waste bans and presents examples from states and cities with existing or proposed waste bans, and offers a toolkit to evaluate options for developing similar policies.
Explicitly encourages the safe, effective, and efficient development of district energy systems in all village zoning districts.
Provides a detailed ratio for “developed land” to “common land” in Amherst’s Cluster Developments. For every dwelling unit, the code requires 2,000 square feet of usable common land.
Requires that cluster developments preserve fifty percent open space in exchange for reducing the minimum lot size from one dwelling unit per ten acres, to two dwelling units per acre.
Allows cluster developments reduced minimum lot sizes and requires fifty percent of land be perpetually maintained as open space for agriculture, parks, recreation, or conservation
Cluster development is required for the subdivision of land in certain “Resource Conservation” districts.
Stipulates that, within three of the region's largest zones, clustered development is required for any subdivision of land over five acres.
Between 75% and 85% of project land must be preserved either for agriculture or forest.