Developing Charlotte

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Developing Charlotte

• Charlotte has a clear set of plans and ideas
• -Town Plan
• -Zoning Bylaws

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Town Plan

• The Charlotte town plan is not intended to
  directly deal with water resources, but it is
  intended to deal with the manner in which the
  town is developed.
• Prime Example can be found on the Charlotte
  webpage.
• Zoning and planning laws are all listed

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Charlotte Zoning Basics
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Zoning Laws Affects on Charlotte Sprawl

• See how Charlotte is Zoned
• Why is rural sprawl encouraged in Charlotte??
• Charlotte Zoning Laws require 5 acres of land for
  each dwelling unit. This encourages development
  to be even more spread out than the traditional
  one-acre lot size. Over the last decade, the
  town has seen a boom in the number of large
  houses, especially along the lake because of its
  attractive rural setting. This is starting to
  change the feel of Charlotte from a traditional
  rural Vermont town to one that is between the
  glitzy refinement of Shelburne to the north and
  the blue-collar panache of Ferrisburgh to the
  south, trying to find a happy medium between the
  two extremes, and forging its own peculiar
  character in the process (Charlotte Homepage
  2003). 

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Development and Watersheds

• Alterations of the landscape cause multi- level
  disturbances in watersheds
• Changing flow patterns
• Changing absorbance rates
• Changing underground movement

• Development in Charlotte is mainly focused on
  housing (single residence) and farming
• Zoning requires min. lot sizes

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Landuse Explored

• Majority of land is minimally developed
• In farms or single family houses
• No major concentrated areas of industrial land or
  commercial development
• Quarry located northeast of Charlotte quarry is
  for granite
• major peninsula (Thompsons point) is full of
  improved camps