Planning commission recommends striking private centralized‑water lot reductions from new land‑division ordinance

The Floyd County Planning Commission recommended adoption of a revised land‑division ordinance but directed staff and the Board of Supervisors to remove provisions allowing reduced lot sizes tied to private centralized water and to impose a larger minimum lot size for parcels without public water.

Carla, a planning staff member, summarized a multi‑year rewrite and explained proposed changes intended to simplify the current subdivision rules and to limit the number of lots that can be created from a single road connection. She described provisions that would allow private centralized water and wastewater systems, permit shared easements for drainfields, and reduce some minimum lot sizes where public or approved private utilities are provided. Planning staff also proposed limiting divisions served by private individual water systems or private…