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require less than 14 percent slope for the house and drainfield site only. Several of the planners disagreed with his interpretation, insisting that each lot must have five acres with no more than 14 percent sloped.) “The ordinance doesn’t really say what happens if a lot is over 14 percent slope,” Compton added.
With slopes over 14 percent in an agricultural zone, a developer must go to 25-acre lot size, according to Luke. “That’s the rule,” he said, noting that rezoning to residential subdivision wouldn't override this minimum lot size.
Goode interjected that Rosser Payne and other expert engineers had checked the subdivision plats twice “and they couldn’t find more than two acres over 14 percent.”
Planning Commission chairman Herbert Barksdale responded that county engineer Fanning Baumgardner had found several lots with as much as 40 percent of their area over 14 percent slope. “According to our ordinances, we can’t approve (the subdivision)," Barksdale maintained.
“It’s up to us to disapprove the subdivision if it’s proven to us that it doesn’t comply,” interjected supervisor Butch Eastham. “How many experts do we have to have to approve or disapprove? It looks to me like it would be a simple engineering feat to go in there and determine the slope of the land/' he said.
“Are we liable for suit if we approve a subdivision that’s not in compliance with our ordinances?” asked supervisors H. B. Wood.
“Paper Study”
In response to a question from the board, Baumgardner explained that he used the contour map furnished by Goode’s engineers to measure the amount of land in each lot with slopes over 14 percent. “It was a paper study based
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