elaine lazarus, director of land use, planning & permitting, town of hopkinton
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Low Impact Development implemented at Legacy Farms, HopkintonTRANSCRIPT
Legacy Farms, Hopkinton
Low Impact Development
733 acres of former Weston Nurseries property
Partnership with developer Agreement on the type and style of
development Agreement on open space – 500 acres Sensitive site - culturally and
environmentally Design guidelines and low impact
development
Legacy Farms
Host Community Agreement item #1:
“The project shall be based on low impact design principles, a set of strategies that seek to maintain natural systems during the development process by creating a development that, to the extent feasible, is integrated into the landscape and not imposed on it.”
Signed May 1, 2008
Layers of Regulation
Zoning Bylaw Amendment – Open Space Mixed Use Development (OSMUD) Overlay District – adopted May 8, 2008
OSMUD established two-step approval process:1. Master Plan Special Permit for entire 733 acres –
including Design Guidelines2. Site Plan Review for Development Projects
Maximum 940 dwelling units; 450,000 sq. ft. commercial space
Layers of Regulation
Dated May 13, 2010 Adopted Design Guidelines – attached to
MPSP Design Guidelines require LID – two
principles: Design with topography and land forms in mind; Incorporate stormwater practices consistent with
LID techniques, in addition to DEP Stormwater Best Management Practices
Master Plan Special Permit
Street and Driveway Design:
Street design and layout shall complement the character of the District and its land uses by following existing topography, limiting site disturbance, avoiding environmentally sensitive locations and minimizing cuts and fills as much as possible. The Planning Board may consider flexibility in the street design and layout in order to accomplish the design intent of the District, the MPSP and these Guidelines. Flexibility in street design which is consistent with the intent of the District could result in differences to standards utilized elsewhere in Hopkinton with regard to street width, length, maximum grades, curbing and shoulder widths…
It is the intent that the Major Street be designed in accordance with the standards contained in the Subdivision Rules and Regulations, with the exception that it is the intent that waivers will be granted by the Planning Board in order to utilize the standards contained in these Guidelines instead.
Design Guidelines
Design Guidelines street layout
Public Way Minor Residential Drive (10-50 units)
Site Plan Criteria includes:
1. Site Plan must comply with Design Guidelines (LID)
2. Site Plan must comply with the MPSP (DG & HCA)
Site Plan Review
Waivers granted from Subdivision Regulation provisions to comply with LID principles: Curbing Maximum grade Construction of road & infrastructure on 25% or
greater slopes, to locate road in previously disturbed areas
Catch basin & manhole locations Drainage system – swales and other LID techniques
to be used Boardwalk sidewalk instead of paved sidewalk in
one area
Subdivision Plans
Alta Legacy Farms – 240 apartment units – nearly complete
Pulte Homes – 275 duplex and simplex units – under construction
Retirement Residence – construction begins summer 2014
282.80 acres open space
Permitted development to date
Legacy Farms Master Plan
Minimized grade changes
Bioretention area
Swales
Bioretention areas
Detention pond
Designed to fit the land
Series of three infiltration basins between apartment buildings and wetland/pond
Infiltration basins
Infiltration basins
Infiltration basins
Infiltration basins
Infiltration basin area
Bioretention area; Signage
Apartment complex - central preserved natural area
Wetland crossing
Wetland crossing
Wastewater treatment plant