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Working Group debates lowering acreage for family subdivisions to expand homeownership options
Summary
Committee members discussed reducing family-division minimums from the current 5/3 configuration to 3/2 (parent/child), extending 5-year ownership holds, and routing hardship appeals to the Board of Supervisors rather than only staff or the planning commission.
Committee members spent extensive time reviewing the county's family subdivision rules and whether to recommend changes aimed at letting property owners create small family parcels while preventing immediate resale that would circumvent subdivision rules.
Luke, a committee member who opened the family-subdivision discussion, summarized the current framework and possible changes. Under existing practice the committee said there is a configuration described as a "5 and 3" rule (parent parcel and new parcel sizes referenced in discussion) and ownership hold periods; members discussed moving to a "3 and 2" approach for certain zoning districts (reducing the parent parcel and child parcel minimums from 5/3 acres to 3/2 acres in appropriate districts).
Members repeatedly emphasized keeping a five-year ownership requirement on any newly created child parcel so that the new lot must…
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