| Under its home rule authority, a municipality may, in an |
| ordinance adopted pursuant to this subsection, adopt additional |
| limitations on the granting of a variance from the dimensional |
| standards of a zoning ordinance. A zoning ordinance also may |
| explicitly delegate to the municipal reviewing authority the |
| ability to approve development proposals that do not meet the |
| dimensional standards otherwise required, in order to promote |
| cluster development, to accommodate lots with insufficient |
| frontage or to provide for reduced setbacks for lots or buildings |
| made nonconforming by municipal zoning.__As long as the |
| development falls within the parameters of such an ordinance, the |
| approval is not considered the granting of a variance.__This |
| delegation of authority does not authorize the reduction of |
| dimensional standards required under the mandatory shoreland |
| zoning laws, Title 38, chapter 3, subchapter 1, article 2-B. |