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administratively on roadi with narrow rights-of-way ii “a bit arbitrary and I’d b< careful with it.”
In the revised ordinance he said, the limit to three lot: with administrative approva is meant to be applied t< parcels under separati ownership or to contiguoui holdings.
“I have problems with the legality of what you have now,” the planner told Miller.
If a “real mess" is going tc be created by letting every landowner on a narrow country road make three administratively approved land divisions, “then we need to reduce that three” rathei than granting administrative approval for three lots to the first landowner on the road who applies and making everyone else set a special exception permit or rezoning, McNear said.
Even tying the number ol lots which can be approved administratively to the rightof-way of the road which serves the lots won’t be acceptable legally, according to McNear.
He mainained that for every narrow road which Miller feels is inadequate to serve an increased number of dwellings, he can show the planning commissioner one that is adequate.
Linking administrative approval for subdivided lots to the state owned right-ofway “has worked real well for the county so far” as a land use control mechanism to limit density, Miller said.
“Oh, I know it has but nobody’s ever bumped you on it,” McNear countered. “I just don’t think it makes sense to allow the division of land into small lots on narrow roads,” replied Miller, adding that the intent of the ordinance was to prohibit subdivision into five-acre lots on roads with less than a 50-foot rightof-way.
“Especially with road funds being as limited as they
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