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residential, business or commercial but across most of the county — the land considered agricultural or conservation - a property owner had to determine slope in order to determine zoning district.
Under the zoning ordinance, with its accompanying map, agriculture (A) and conservation (C) districts, the county’s “resource preservation zoning districts,” still comprise the bulk of Rappahannock’s land mass. And those districts as drawn on the zoning maps are still predicated on slope, but the determination has been made on a countywide basis. The district “reflects the character of the area, its general slope, rather than the slope of each square foot of land,” Mr. McCarthy said.
As for the other districts - residential rural (RR-5), residential (R2), residential village (RV), mobile home park (MHP), commercial village (CV), commercial general (CG), commercial highway (HC) and industrial (I) - the designation is based primarily on existing use, according to Mr. McCarthy.
Administrative approval
“I have 100 acres. It’s zoned agricultural. I want to subdivide. Do I have to go through a lot of red tape and public hearings?”
That’s the question so many landowners want answered. And the new zoning ordinance has a new answer, because the rules for administrative approval have changed.
By right, Mr. Smith can subdivide three lots from his agriculturally zoned land but only if certain tests are passed. When Mr. Smith brings his application into the zoning office, John McCarthy looks at the piece of land Mr. Smith intends to subdivide AND at the contiguous or adjoining pieces he may also own. Mr. Smith can get administrative approval to cut parcel A into three lots but then he can’t come back later for administrative approval to make three by-right cuts from parcel B.
“To subdivide parcel B, he must go to the Board of Supervisors for a special exception permit. Now, they can give him approval for it, but they must maintain the density of one dwelling unit per 25 acres set for
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