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Council reviews subdivision thresholds, lot-size rules and hamlet minimums
Summary
Planners proposed a clarified RL district minimum lot size of 20 acres and recommended keeping the hamlet minimum at 250 acres; staff also suggested raising the administrative minor-subdivision threshold to 5 lots to ensure infrastructure is reviewed.
Staff walked council through edits to the code that clarify minimum lot sizes and administrative review thresholds. The proposed change specifies that "there are no minimum lot sizes except in the RL District. The minimum lot size is 20 acres except as provided in 16 11 6 for family lots," addressing prior confusion about how the rule had appeared in a table versus the narrative.
Planning staff also recommended increasing the administrative subdivision threshold from legacy language of 3 lots to 5 lots, closing a loophole that allowed some format subdivisions to skip infrastructure review and final plat oversight. On hamlets, staff defended retaining a 250-acre minimum to ensure a viable, walkable commercial node and to preserve contiguous open space rather than encouraging dispersed format subdivisions.
