The current regulations appear to focus interconnectivity too heavily on what is within each development but less on how one development can, where practical, be connected with another.  The measures seem to put more emphasis on internal pavement needs as well as what appears to be over providing for pedestrian traffic.  It is important to provide for pedestrian or bike accessability, but not to the extreme of requiring more pavement than necessary to meet those goal.  

Provisions are made for design standard waivers, however, it appears that based on these requirements potential to be contrary with environmental conservation and drainage run-off minimization goals, waiver requests could become the norm rather than an alternative for the occational relief from extenuating circumstances.  As you know, this will only add to the time requirements through delays and costs to developments.