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Proponents of the new standards say they are needed for safe access for fire and rescue vehicles. Existing driveways are used by loaded gravel and other trucks, as heavy and wide as any fire or rescue ones. Residents use them daily, family and friends often. Owners are interested in safe passage from them!

— The changes require an elaborate “Site Plan,” covering the area to be developed (“Conservation Lot”) or one acre, whichever is greater, the Plan prepared by a certified or licensed professional. That won’t be cheap. It must show all structures, “outdoor recreation areas,” (Do we need bureaucratic approval to put a barbecue grill, flower or vegetable garden, or volleyball net in our yard?); “vegetative cover removed from the . . . lot, ...by ... types ... and size of specimen; At least sixty per cent of the vegetative cover shall be undisturbed or ... replanted with cover comparable to that removed.” (Will that make the yard a better place for chil

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