Why this package exists

This package aligns East Bethel’s rural and agricultural development controls with the adopted Comprehensive Plan. It establishes the development-yield rules and subdivision mechanisms needed to preserve rural land while allowing reasonable development.

Package standard: Rural Residential uses a one-per-ten gross-acre base yield; Agricultural-guided land uses one-per-forty; larger rural subdivisions use conservation design; qualifying open space is permanently protected; and Future Growth land remains capable of later urbanization through ghost-plat planning.

Implementation posture: ready for staff and City Attorney redline drafting.

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Ordinance proposals

• Rural Residential Development Yield
  One dwelling per ten gross acres; higher density only through conservation development.
• Agricultural Density Conformance
  One dwelling per forty gross acres on Agricultural-guided land.
• Sequential Lot-Split Controls
  Parent-tract yield follows the land through later parcel changes.
• Conservation Subdivision Procedure
  Mandatory at four lots or twenty gross acres.
• Qualifying Open Space
  Fifty-percent protection standard when conservation development is used above base yield.
• Permanent Open-Space Protection
  Recorded protection before final plat.
• Future Growth / Ghost Plat Requirements
  One-per-ten interim yield and ghost plat beginning at three lots.