259 Old Orchard Rd, Bristol, CT 00611

Single-Family Residential-Open Space Development Zone

The Single-Family Residential Zones are intended to provide suitable areas for appropriate residential development while offering a range of lot sizes that may be served efficiently by municipal utilities and facilities. The zones are also intended to accommodate certain non-residential uses which are compatible with residential uses while preserving property values and maintaining a predominately residential neighborhood setting.; The OSD - Open Space Development zone is an overlay zone of the R-15, R-25 and R-40 zones intended to accommodate alternative forms of residential development which: reduce required minimum lot sizes or provide for the clustering of dwelling units while, at the same time, providing for the preservation of land for open space, recreational and/or other public purposes in an amount greater than would occur in a conventional development; and, through the design and layout of streets, lots, dwelling units and open spaces, accomplish the following purposes: conserve and protect natural and scenic features including rivers, streams and lakes, wetlands, forests, historic sites, and ridgetops; provide, in appropriate areas of population concentration, land for active recreational use; retain fish and wildlife habitat areas and nature observation areas; protect natural drainage ways and flood water detention and retention areas; and, protect surface and subsurface water supplies