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Commission to hold workshop after staff revives access-management standards for county thoroughfares
Summary
County planning staff presented draft access-management language and a spacing table to guide driveway and intersection spacing on Powhatan thoroughfares. Commissioners agreed to a workshop to separate commercial and residential standards and to develop clearer spacing rules tied to road classification and safety.
Planning staff returned to the Planning Commission with draft language intended to reinstate and revise Powhatan County’s access-management standards for major and minor thoroughfares. The commission agreed to a separate workshop to develop clearer spacing and driveway rules that distinguish commercial development from single-family residential access.
Planner Charity Gold (presenting the draft) said the draft reintroduced purpose and limitations language and a spacing table that staff found in earlier ordinances but that commissioners and…
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