Splitting small lots below minimum size required by zone inevitably leads to environmental problems

Please click on image to ENLARGE and read times and dates of public hearings on a lot split that would create two lots smaller than the standard in the Neighhborhood Conservation district.
The lot is narrow but has frontage on both South Street and East Avenue. The bad news is that it is mostly steep and runoff will be significant if it is covered with red dirt for development. There will be no way to KEEP the WATER WHERE it FALLS if the lower part of the lot is graded. Two driveways and two sidewalks and two houses on the site of a single house will make almost all the surface impervious.
During construction, keeping red dirt, mud and various types of silt from running down East Avenue and into the Spout Spring Branch will be impossible.