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(whose denial of a family subdivision prompted the amendment allowing a sixth cut by special exception permit upon compliance with specific standards), they should change the zoning regulations to allow7 other small landowners to divide one-acre lots for family transfer. “You’re discriminating against us! You call that fair?"
“You should change the ordinance for all the small landowners,” interjected Mrs. Wilson Atkins, who is Mrs. Berry's sister. “You all want to shove the small landowners down the drain, but you don’t forget to send out the tax bills.”
“We’d liked to be considered. We’d like some say-so in how we can use our land, rather than just having to pay taxes on it,” added Mrs. Burnham Atkins, the mother of the two women.
“All of us w ant to do what we can to help the small landowners,” responded Supervisor Mike Massie. “Personally, I feel like the amendment we’re adopting here tonight accomplishes a lot . . . We go to far greater lengths to help the small landowner than any other county around here.”
At Mr. Massie’s request. County Administrator John McCarthy reported how neighboring localities handle the state's ambiguously worded requirement for a family transfer provision:
• Culpeper sets the minimum lot size for a family division the same as in its agricultural zones. That county now has two agricultural zones with one and two-acre lot sizes so the minimum for a family division is also one or two acres, depending on which agricultural zone the land is in. But Culpeper is currently considering a comprehensive downzoning, possibly to four agricultural zones with minimum lot sizes of two, five, 10, and 20 acres, and if that is accomplished, then the minimum lot size for family divisions would be upped correspondingly. In addition, Culpeper disallows the sale of a lot created through the family transfer provision for a mimimum of five years.
• Madison County makes the minimum lot size for a family division the same as the zone in which the property is located, which is three acres for agricultural zones and five acres for conservation zones. Madison also literally applies the state requirement by allowing family transfers only to child or parent, and
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