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Town of Lexington Motion 2023 Annual Town Meeting Housing and Community Development and shall remain affordable in perpetuity. 2. Inclusionary dwelling units shall be substantially similar in size, layout, construction materials, fixtures, amenities, and interior and exterior f�inishes to comparable dwelling units in the same dwelling. 3. A Special Residential Development with more than one inclusionary dwelling unit shall proportionally disperse those units throughout the development rather than concentrate them within particular sections of a dwelling or within particular dwellings. 4. Occupants of inclusionary dwelling units shall have the same access to common areas, facilities, and services as enj oyed by other occupants of the development including but not limited to outdoor spaces, amenity spaces, storage, parking, bicycle parking facilities, and resident services. 5. The Planning Board, in consultation with the Select Board, the Housing Partnership Board, and the Commission on Disability, shall adopt regulations concerning physical characteristics, location, and access to services of inclusionary dwelling units; defining limits on the household income of occupants, sale price, and rent of inclusionary dwelling units; and the form of required legal restrictions for such units. 6. A Special Residential Development with six or fewer market-rate dwelling units shall be permitted to meet the requirements of this section by making a payment to the Town's Affordable Housing Trust in an amount equal to the estimated construction cost of 15% of the GFA permitted under the proof plan submitted pursuant to § 6.9.4, as determined in accordance with regulations to be promulgated by the Planning Board. 7. No certificate of occupancy shall be issued for multi-family housing until an affordable housing restriction for any inclusionary dwelling units is executed, submitted to the Town, and, to the extent required, recorded. 6.9.9 Regulations The Planning Board shall adopt Site Plan Review regulations and standards, consistent with this Section, regarding Special Residential Developments, including with respect to pedestrian and vehicular access to, and egress from, the site, landscaping, screening, and buffers, lighting, stormwater management, architectural style and scale, water and wastewater systems, and refuse disposal. The Planning Board shall also adopt Site Plan Review regulations and standards for Site Sensitive Developments, to protect natural features of the site such as natural grades and slopes, views, mature trees, stonewalls, natural resources such as agricultural soil, and common open space. 6.9.10 Common Open Space Standards. 1. Minimum common open space. At least 15% of the developable site area in a Special Residential Development shall be set aside as common open space. 4