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Floyd County to advertise draft land-division ordinance after board directs tighter limits on new private roads
Summary
After months of review the Floyd County Board of Supervisors directed staff to add more restrictive language to the draft land-division (subdivision) ordinance—including an option limiting new private/shared roads to 10 lots and adding a 320-foot frontage reference—then authorized staff to advertise a public hearing, likely for Feb. 25.
The Floyd County Board of Supervisors agreed Jan. 14 to advertise a public hearing on a revised land-division ordinance (the county’s working name for its subdivision ordinance) after directing staff to add several restrictive provisions intended to limit the scale of new private roads and clarify utilities requirements.
The board, which has been working on the rewrite for more than a year, instructed staff to incorporate a suggested 10-lot limit for new private/shared roads (the board asked that new roads built to county or private standards be treated the same) and to include a 320-foot frontage reference in the draft before it is sent to legal advertising. After that change, the supervisors authorized staff to advertise the ordinance and set a public hearing date, most likely Feb. 25, subject to the legal advertising timeline.
Why it matters The land-division rewrite affects how large parcels may be divided and what…
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