Arrangements of triominoes and tetrominoes where each touches polyominoes of total area 4 times their own

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Consider arrangements of triominoes and tetrominoes on a grid where each polyomino touches polyominoes of total area 4 times their own. (Here "on a grid" means the vertices of the underlying squares have integer coordinates, and "touch" means share positive perimeter.)

It is not too hard to find a disconnected collection a triominoes and tetrominoes with this property, where each type of polyomino touches 4 others of the same area:

3-and 4-ominoes

Is there a connected example? If so, it is not hard to see that each triomino would need to touch exactly 3 tetrominoes, and each tetromino would need to touch exactly 1 tetromino and 4 triominoes.

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