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By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to uphold the slope standards in the zoning ordinance and deny Philip Mitchell’s request for a special exception for a seven-lot subdivision.
Mr. Mitchell had applied for a special exception to divide his 193.5-acre farm just west of Ben Venue on U.S. 211 into seven lots, each larger than 25 acres. He said he wanted to give six of the seven lots to six of his children and keep the seventh lot for himself.
When the Planning Commission first took up the issue of the subdivision at its December meeting, members asked Mr. Mitchell to supply information to them on the amount of land on his farm that was in slopes greater than 25 percent. At the January meeting Mr. Mitchell showed the planners a plat of the subdivision indicating that 34.3 acres of the land was in slopes of 25 percent or greater.
The zoning ordinance provides that only 30 percent of that steep slope land may be used when calculating acreage to meet density requirements. That left Mr. Mitchell with an allowance of 10.3 acres to be added to the 159.2 acres of land with less than 25 percent slope to come up with 169^5 acres for calculating density allowed.
At a density of one house per 25 acres, that would permit only six lots to be created from the farm. Mr. Mitchell was
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