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Fluvanna BZA hears request to reduce lot frontage from 500 to 421 feet for 11.04‑acre parcel
Summary
The Fluvanna County Board of Zoning Appeals heard a request from an applicant to grant a 79‑foot variance to the county frontage requirement so a family division can proceed; a motion to approve was made but no vote is recorded in the transcript.
The Fluvanna County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) heard a request for a 79‑foot variance to Fluvanna County Code section 22‑4‑3(c)(1)(a) that would reduce the required road frontage on an 11.04‑acre parcel from 500 feet to 421 feet.
The request (BZA 25‑01) concerns Tax Map 47A, Parcel 42, an A‑1 (agricultural general) parcel in the rural residential planning area within the Cunningham Collection District. Planning staff said the parcel currently has approximately 421 feet of frontage on Route 6 (West River Road) and therefore does not meet the 500‑foot frontage standard required to subdivide under current code.
Planning staff told the BZA the applicants provided prior communications with a former planning director indicating an expectation that a family division could be performed; staff said a variance is required because county code prohibits creating lots below minimum width without a variance. Staff summarized the standard variance analysis, including whether the nonconformity existed in good faith when the property was purchased and whether granting relief would harm adjacent properties.
An applicant‑side speaker described the request as a family division intended to allow a son to purchase and build on the front portion of the parcel. Public commenter Brian Ray said, “we were kinda involved in the whole process and and, really, we're just trying to do the, what mister thought he could do when he purchased the property,” and added the split was intended to allow the son to build a house.
A member of the BZA made a motion to approve BZA 25‑01, seeking authorization of the 79‑foot variance. The transcript records the motion but does not record a second or the board’s vote on the motion in the provided excerpt.
Because the transcript does not show a recorded second or final vote, no formal outcome can be confirmed from the provided record. The discussion and submitted surveys and prior boundary adjustments will be part of the board’s record and any final decision must be confirmed in the official minutes.
