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Planning commission defers single‑cut subdivision, minimum‑lot‑size chart amendments for 60 days

Powhatan County Planning Commission · October 8, 2025
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Summary

Charity Gold, planning staff, presented proposed countywide amendments to reinstate a limited single‑cut subdivision exception for agricultural zones and to revise the minimum‑lot‑size reference chart in the zoning code.

Charity Gold of the Planning Department presented proposed countywide amendments to the subdivision and zoning ordinances intended to reinstate a one‑time single‑cut subdivision exception in agricultural zones. Under the proposed language, an owner of a parent tract that has not been altered since April 18, 1988 could split one parcel off the parent tract (the single‑cut) and create a residual lot, with a minimum residual size intended to be at least 10 acres. The amendments also proposed to remove a minimum‑lot‑size reference chart from the zoning ordinance and to rely on the subdivision ordinance…

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