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his presentation. He did submit a slope analysis of the property showing that 39.2 acres of his approximately 138 acres was in slopes of 25 percent or greater. Applying the density reduction formula results in 110.5 acres, which allows for four, not five lots on the property, Mr. McCarthy reported.
The planners then briefly reconsidered the proposed Planned Unit Residential Development (PURD) ordinance, but took no action. Two members said they had had second thoughts about their opposition to the idea. “Maybe it could be an option,” Jackson District representative David Fannon said. “The Board of Supervisors might have the option to require clustering in certain cases.”
“What I like about it is having the easement fixed,” StonewallHawthom District representative Sharon Pierce said.
Under “zoning matters” County Administrator John McCarthy told the planners that a bill introduced in last year’s General Assembly that would make it illegal to use the special exception process to limit growth, which had been held over for the 1991 General Assembly, had been referred to a study commission that was also studying Transfer of Development Rights proposals and provisions for adequate public facilities. All other bills having to do with land use that were held over have also been turned over to that commission, Mr. McCarthy said.
The Northern Virginia Homebuilders Association has two representatives on the commission, including John T. “Til” Hazel, he added. “The commission will be hearing all this testimony about the abuse of the special exception process,” he said. The planners recommended that the Board of Supervisors communicate with the commission about the county’s use of the special exception process.
Planning Commission Chairman Allen Stokes asked if the county could regulate materials used in double-wide trailers, which are now allowed in agriculture zones as a result of a bill passed by the General Assembly. Mr. McCarthy said any such regulations would have to apply to any housing in agricultural zones.
“These trailers are just fire traps,” Mr. Stokes said.
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