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Amendments
would affect*
subdivisions
By SHARON KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors will consider a series of amendments to the zoning ordinance this fall.
Some of the amendments involve tightening up the procedures for using the family subdivision provision of the ordinance. Some would serve to place further restrictions on golf courses. Others are required by changes in state law approved by Virginia’s General Assembly.
The planners will hold a public hearing on the amendments Sept. 19, and the supervisors will consider them after a public hearing Oct. 1.
Under family subdivisions the amendments would require that a piece of land be held for a period of five years before it qualifies for family subdivision. They would also state that following a division allowed under the family subdivision provision a lot could not be sold for two years.
The amendments would also restrict family members who could receive lots under the provision to children or parents of the owner or to a former spouse in the case where a division of property is part of a divorce settlement. Finally, under the proposed amendments, land in joint ownership would not qualify for family subdivisions.
The amendments relating to golf courses would increase the minimum amount of land for a golf course from 50 acres to 75 acres for a nine-hole course and 150 acres for an 18-hole course. Also one proposed amendment would require that greens and fairways be set back 150 feet from adjoining property and from public roads. Another amendment would allow the planners to require someone applying for a golf course to submit information on how the water needs of the course would be met and how runoff from chemical treatments would be handled.
Two of the proposed amendments are required by laws enacted by the General Assembly this year. One would allow permanent mobile homes to be located in agriculturally zoned land provided they are 19.5 feet wide, placed on a permanent foundation and “skirted.”
Another change required by new state law would allow group homes anywhere other single-family residences are allowed, providing that they have no more than eight “mentally ill, mentally retarded, or developmental^ disabled persons” plus staff.
Another amendment will require that private roads serving five or more lots be built to state highway department standards. The current ordinance requires that for a road serving seven or more lots.
Yet another amendment would apply to such uses as lodges, campgrounds, monasteries, residential and medical care facilities. The amendment would limit them to two two-person occupancy units per acre. The amendments will also state an absolute number of units allowed for some of these uses.
See ZONING, p. 14
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