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Union County Land Use Board opens review of minor-subdivision rules; staff to research parent-parcel date and options
Summary
Board members, builders and realtors debated lowering the minor-subdivision threshold (currently eight lots since 1978), the 30% open-space rule for major subdivisions, and trade-offs for farmland preservation and housing affordability; staff will return with comparative research and possible family-subdivision options.
Union Countys Land Use Board on Feb. 24 spent the bulk of its meeting reviewing potential changes to the countys minor-subdivision rules, including whether to reduce the threshold that separates "minor" from "major" subdivisions and whether to reset the parent-parcel cutoff date now set as Feb. 14, 1978.
Planning staff explained that, under the countys Unified Development Ordinance, a minor subdivision creates no more than eight lots from a parent tract (the 1978 parent-parcel rule is used to limit how many times a parcel can be subdivided without triggering a major review). Staff told the board that minor subdivisions are processed in a single step (survey/plat and review by a few county departments) and that major subdivisions require pre-application, sketch and preliminary plans, construction documents, performance guarantees and multiple agency…
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