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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“A cluster concept with a permanent restriction on the land makes a lot of sense,” Robert Dennis told the Rappahannock planning commsisioners last week, urging that they recommend approval for J. J. Dwyer’s cluster proposal.
Mr. Dwyer is seeking the commissioners’ reaction to plans for building three rental units on less than an acre. The retired attorney, who owns about 1,000 contiguous acres with 3 miles of frontage on Route 522 and Fodderstack Road, proposes to merge separate parcels to give the lot with the three rental units the density of one dwelling unit per 25 acres specified by the zoning ordinance and has offered to place a deed restriction on the property, prohibiting future subdivision.
(By permitting clustered development, the county seeks to encourage the preservation of farmland and open space. As an example, the owner of 100 acres of agriculturally zoned land with an allowable density of 25 acres per dwelling unit could, by right, subdivide the property into four 25-acre lots. Under Rappahannock’s recently revised zoning ordinance, that same landowner may be allowed four smaller lots of five acres apiece if the balance of 80 acres is maintained as permanent open space.
Mr. Dwyer’s proposal is not a traditional cluster in that (1) he has no plans to subdivide the property and (2) the close proximity of the three dwelling units effectively precludes future subdivision even if his plans should change.)
When the idea was presented last month, commissioners David Fannon and Werner Krebser were opppsed, questioning the precedent which would be set for
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