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water quality and other natural resources, utilizing natural features of the land and allowing more efficient provisions for public services. Where applicable, the open land shall be located in Primary or Secondary Conservation Areas designated by the Mash.pee Open Space Conservation Incentive Plan and in areas of prime agricultural soils as identified in the Soil Survey of Barnstable County, Massachusetts issued by the United States Department of Agriculture in March 1993. Open space should also be laid out so as to maximize buffer areas to water bodies and wetlands and to promote and protect maximum solar access within the development. (2) Except as provided under Subsections B.(9) and (10) below, the total number of lots for building purposes within the tract shown on the plan shall be riot more than the number of times that the total, upland area of the tract, in square feet, exclusive of water, wetlands as defined under MGL C. 131, §40, existing or proposed streets, roadway rights-of-way or easements twenty (20) feet or more in width and overhead utility rights-of-way or easements twenty (20) feet or more in width, is wholly divisible by the minimum lot size, in square feet, normally required for the zoning district in which the tract is located. (3) The lots for building purposes shall be grouped in a cluster or clusters, and within each cluster the lots shall be continuous. Open space shall be contiguous within the subdivision or to other existing or proposed open space to the maximum extent practicable. (4) The design process should follow this sequence: 1) delineation. of topography, wetlands, prime agricultural soils, Primary and Secondary Conservation areas, historic or ,archaeological sites and any active agricultural lands or facilities; 2) delineation of proposed open space; 3) delineation of potential building sites, 4) location and alignment of access roads and driveways; 5) general design of stormwater management and treatment facilities and 6) establishment of lot lines. Application materials shall include mapping and other evidence showing bow this design sequence was implemented. (5) As, part of its special permit decision, the Planning Board may, at its sole discretion, set a schedule of lot area, frontage, setback and other dimensional regulations (except height and setbacks from wetlands and cranberry bogs as specified elsewhere in this Chapter) for building lots in the cluster development which differ from those otherwise required by Section 174-3 1. However, each lot shall have no less than twenty (20) feet of frontage on a public or private street. Said schedule of dimensional regulations shall also be included as a table or graphically on the definitive subdivision plan. Exce pt when required to protect wetlands or other critical natural resource areas, the Board may not require setbacks greater than those no.: allyrequired in the zoning district without written agreement of the applicant. Any proposed building lot shall contain adequate width and area to 1) allow for a building footprint of at least 1000 square feet plus additional area to meet the setback regulations established by the Planning Board for the subdivision and any setback requirements from wetlands and cranberry bogs established elsewhere in this chapter, 2) include sufficient area to accommodate required grade changes, 3) provide adequate area for required parking and access drive, 4) provide for stormwater management on the lot in conformance with the provisions of this chapter, 5) provide for required wastewater disposal facilities and setbacks from wells or other features as specified by the Board of Health and 6) provide for reasonable privacy and landscape buffers between residences, including those within and adjacent to the subdivision.." 25