MISQUAH — The lots. North Pine Land & Homes proposed eighteen residential lots on forty-one acres. The adopted recommendation caps the plat at sixteen. Two lots come off the drawing, and where they come off is the developer’s decision, not the board’s.

The outlots. The plat also carries two parcels that are not residential — the stormwater basin and, under the buffer condition, the low ground at the south end. Those are outlots. They do not count against the sixteen, a point Gene Maki asked to have stated plainly Thursday, and which is now stated plainly in two sets of minutes.

The docks. Unchanged, and still the condition with the most teeth: one common shoreline-access plan in place of individual dock locations. Two fewer lots does not mean two fewer docks, because there were never going to be sixteen or eighteen docks. There is going to be one plan.

The money. Kevin Stang of North Pine said the company’s preliminary range of roughly $270,000 to $350,000 per home does not move on sixteen lots, and that the per-lot cost of the road and shoreline work goes up when there are fewer lots to spread it across. Asked whether sixteen is workable, he said: “Sixteen is workable. Fourteen would not have been. I’d rather you print that than have somebody tell you I said any number is fine.”

The schedule. Nothing changes. The conditions have to be satisfied in writing before a final plat, the county engineer has not looked at the shoulder yet, and the council takes up the recommendation October 6. No construction is possible this year.