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Staff recommends denial of 4‑lot rural subdivision; commissioners debate how to secure open space
Summary
Planning staff recommended denial of a four‑lot subdivision on Hendron Chapel Road for failing to meet the comprehensive plan’s rural conservation open‑space requirement; commissioners discussed maintenance, easements, HOAs and whether current regulations need thresholds for very small subdivisions.
Planning staff recommended denial of a proposed four‑lot subdivision on Hendron Chapel Road because the plan does not provide a dedicated clustered open space that satisfies the comprehensive plan’s rural conservation (RC) place‑type standard calling for preservation of roughly 50% of the site.
Samuel, planning staff, said the 2.84‑acre subject property is classified RC in the comprehensive plan and that the place type requires subdivisions to cluster development and preserve 50% or more of the site as open space. The applicant’s development plan included a note that each lot would retain at least 50% per lot, but staff said the plan does not create a separate, dedicated open‑space…
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