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Planning commission approves family subdivision changes: new-lot hold 8 years, no hold on residual parcel
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to recommend amendments that reduce minimum family-division lot sizes and require new family lots to be restricted to immediate family ownership for eight years while removing a holding requirement on the parent (residual) parcel.
The Powhatan County Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend a package of amendments to family-division and subdivision rules that change minimum lot sizes and holding periods for family-division lots.
Under the amendments sent to the Board of Supervisors, the minimum lot size for a family-division (A-10/RR rural residential) new lot would be reduced from 3 acres to 2 acres, and the minimum size for the residue (parent) parcel would change from 5 acres to 4 acres (a 6-acre total minimum). The commission also approved a separate amendment clarifying the minimum lot size chart in the zoning ordinance.
Commissioner Winnall moved the package as amended; Commissioners voted 5-0 to forward the…
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