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Board removes acreage minimum and coop permit fee for small-scale agriculture in agricultural districts
Summary
The board voted to amend zoning to eliminate the county's 5-acre minimum for keeping livestock in agricultural zoning districts (A2, A3, RA), remove the coop-certificate application and $65 fee, and rely largely on complaint-driven enforcement while keeping a 5-acre standard in RU/PRR residential districts.
Spotsylvania County supervisors voted on Tuesday to amend zoning rules governing small-scale agriculture and accessory domestic laying hens, removing the five-acre minimum for keeping livestock in the county’s agricultural zoning districts and abolishing the county’s administrative coop-certificate and $65 application fee.
Planning staff presented the ordinance package—identified as CA25-3 and listed in the meeting materials as ordinance number 203-191—explaining the change is deregulatory in nature for A2, A3 and RA zoning districts where agriculture is an allowable use. Under the amendment, those agricultural districts will no longer be subject to a five-acre livestock minimum; crop-farming minimums tied to two acres in…
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