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“They have one acre zoning along most of their boundary,” Mr. McCarthy told the group, and there are many properties which straddle the county line. “Right now, we say that if they don’t have 25 acres in our county the don’t get even one building lot. We don't want to do something which could be used against us there.”
“As long as we have straight line boundaries we will have this problem,” said Hampton District Supervisor Mike Massie. “The only solution is to draw a line which conforms to the lot boundary lines.”
The county administrator also noted that the town has objected to any plan which would extend its zoning regulations beyond the town limits, fearing that such a de facto annexation might obligate it to provide additional services which it is not in a position to do. Previous plans have contained such a provision, relying on a particular lot size to determine whether the parcel would be governed by town or county zoning regulations.
Mr. McCarthy presented maps of the Tow n of Washington laying out all the properties which are cut by the boundary line, as well as the current zoning for all properties surrounding the town.
“The perception,” he said, “is that the county has already zoned the area around the town for dense development. Yes, it is mostly two and five-acre zoning - but by far most are old subdivisions, done long before the existing zoning ordinance.”
Passing out copies of the maps, he addressed a recurrent theme voiced by the town’s Planning Commission Chairman William Wickens, who has charged that the town could be ringed by a “necklace of subdivisions” created without any rezoning, public hearing or modification
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