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Board approves zoning change to limit minor subdivisions to five lots from a parent tract
Summary
Fluvanna supervisors voted to amend the zoning ordinance on April 16 to clarify that no more than five lots may be created from a parent tract using the minor‑subdivision process, closing a perceived five‑year workaround and aligning local rules with peer counties.
The Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors on April 16 approved a zoning text amendment that limits the minor‑subdivision process so that a parent tract may yield no more than five lots through minor subdivisions, regardless of whether those lots are created at once or over time.
Planning staff said the change is intended to prevent repeated five‑lot minor subdivisions from being used to create a de facto major subdivision without the public review and infrastructure requirements that normally accompany major subdivisions.…
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