For all development activities in the Intensely Developed Areas, the applicant shall identify any environmental or natural feature described below and meet all the following standards:
A. 
Intensely Developed Areas (IDAs) include areas where residential, commercial, institutional, and/or industrial development uses predominate and where relatively little natural habitat occurs. At the time of the initial mapping, these areas shall have had at least one of the following features:
(1) 
Housing density equal to or greater than four dwelling units per acre;
(2) 
Industrial, institutional, or commercial uses are concentrated in the area; or
(3) 
Public sewer and water collection and distribution systems are currently serving the area and housing density is greater than three dwelling units per acre.
B. 
In addition, IDAs should be in an area of at least 20 adjacent acres unless it is the entirety of the upland area of the City or it is a growth allocation that is consistent with Article VII.
C. 
Land use activities within the IDA will be managed in accordance with the land use policies of COMAR 27.01.02.03.
D. 
Crisfield shall develop a strategy to reduce the impacts on water quality generated by existing development. This shall include an assessment of water quality and impacts to biological resources prompted by community redevelopment plans and programs and may further include a public education program, the implementation of urban best management practices, and the use of such techniques as urban forestry programs, street tree plantings, gardens, and open land buffer plantings.
E. 
Development activities shall be designed and implemented to minimize destruction of forest and woodland vegetation.
F. 
All development and redevelopment activities shall include stormwater management technologies that reduce pollutant loadings by at least 10% below the level of pollution on the site prior to development or redevelopment as provided in Critical Area 10% Rule Guidance Manual — Fall 2003 and as may be subsequently amended and the Maryland Stormwater Design Manual, Volumes I and II (October 2000, Revised May 2009, Appendix D.4, Critical Area Criteria IDA Zone), and as may be subsequently amended (MDE SWM Design Manual - Appendix D.4).