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5.5 acres short of the amount of land that would be necessary for a seventh lot.
The planners voted three to one to recommend that the Board of Supervisors waive the requirement and approve the subdivision.
At the board’s Monday night public hearing several speakers opposed waiving the slope requirement and also supported requiring Mr. Mitchell to site the houses on the subdivision so they would not harm the view. The supervisors then indicated that most of them are uncomfortable with trying to tell a landowner where to put his houses, but they did not feel the ordinance gave them the authority to waive the slope requirements.
The board then voted to support Hampton District representative Mike Massie’s motion to deny the waiver for seven lots.
Following further discussion of houses on hillsides during which no votes were taken, County Administrator John McCarthy asked Mr. Mitchell whether he was still interested in applying for a special exception for a six-lot subdivision.
“What are my options?” Mr. Mitchell asked.
“Can you get 5.5 more acres from an adjoining landowner?” Stonewall-Hawthom District representative Robert Anderson asked.
“I’ve thought of that, but I haven’t
See MITCHELL, p. 14
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