The route follows Roaring Brook, is crossed by the Appalachian Trail, provides access to recreational lands in the Green Mountain National Forest, including White Rocks National Recreation Area and to Wallingford Pond, and terminates at either end in a typical Vermont village. Designating the corridor as a scenic corridor in the Town Plan does not designate it as a scenic road under the state or federal scenic road program. Lands that are above 2500 feet in elevation are generally steep, inaccessible and have poor soils for onsite sewage disposal due to depth to bedrock. An appropriate district for any such lands outside federal ownership would be a Conservation District with a very low density such as 25 acres per unit. In such a district, farm, forest and outdoor recreation uses are generally permitted uses, while any permanent structure usually requires a conditional use permit.
Some towns allow single family dwellings as a permitted use.
This latter depends on the road network, and the Town s position on maintenance of remote roadways. The existing Industrial Zoning District does not distinguish between heavy and light industrial uses. The character of most of the existing industrial use, which is mineral or sand and gravel extraction, is clearly a heavy industrial use. However, manufacturing facilities such as those in the Clarendon Industrial Park at the airport are light industrial uses. The areas zoned industrial on the existing zoning map represent ownership by mineral extraction companies, except for the area between the railroad and Otter Creek in Wallingford Village and the small industrial area in East Wallingford.