We provide several equivalent characterizations of locally flat, d-Ahlfors regular, uniformly rectifiable sets E in Rn with density close to 1 for any dimension d∈N with 1≤d≤n−1. In particular, we show that when E is Reifenberg flat with small constant and has Ahlfors regularity constant close to 1, then the Tolsa alpha coefficients associated to E satisfy a small constant Carleson measure estimate. This estimate is new, even when d=n−1, and gives a new characterization of chord-arc domains with small constant.