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In response to Konick’s report on Wiltshire Turner Ltd.’s plans to seek changes in Rapphannock's subdivision ordinance. Commissioner Newbill Miller voiced opposition, at least to half of the proposal. “I’m not in favor of eliminating 25acre lots from subdivision regulations,” he announced. But he added that he’d didn’t feel strongly on the issue of allowing 25-acre lots to be served by private streets rather than requiring internal roads in large lot subdivisions to be built to state specifications.
(According to Askew, it costs approximately S100.000 a mile to build a road to state specifications. The zoning administrator estimated that Wiltshire Turner Ltd.’s proposed subdivision has roughly one mile of internal roads which must be built to state standards under the current subdivision ordinance.)
Miller noted that he would first need to look in detail at the investment firm’s proposals as outlined in the letter to Baumgardner and relate them to the county ordinance before he could reach a decision on the options put forward by Wiltshire Turner’s lawyers.
“But what happens five or ten years down the road on maintenance?” asked Konick. If private streets are allowed in large-lot subdivisions, the developer should be required to post a maintenance bond, he advised. In addition, Konick
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