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ESTATE RESIDENTIAL

This designation is for areas that should have limited development activity other than large-lot residential. Such areas
provide a transition between a city’s rural fringe and more urbanized in-city development patterns and intensities. Lots in
this category ideally should be one acre or larger, which provides substantial openness and separation between individual
dwellings, and can incorporate agricultural uses.

Estate character area along and south of Rangeview Drive in south Littleton.
Source: Google Earth (all aerial views in this section).
Primary Land Use Types
• Detached residential dwellings.
Example Proportions
Characteristics of Estate Character
Elements
• Transition from the Rural portion of the character spectrum where the landscape is
visually dominant over structures to Estate areas where most of the land surface is
still in unbuilt open space (green on the accompanying pie chart) but with more land
now occupied by buildings (brown) and paved surfaces (gray).

• In the Suburban range of the character spectrum but with larger lots (typically one
acre or larger), especially where required by public health regulations to allow for
both individual water wells and on-site septic systems on properties where
centralized water and/or wastewater service may not be available or feasible.
• One-acre lots are usually adequate in wooded areas to achieve visual screening of
homes from streets and adjacent dwellings. Three-to five-acre lots may be needed to
achieve and maintain true Estate character in more open areas with less vegetation
and/or topographic changes.
Where on Map

• Estate Residential is shown in south Littleton near Heritage High School, and also near the western city limits in the
vicinity of Mineral Avenue.

Adopted October 15, 2019