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Attachment C: Draft Subdivision Ordinance
ORDINANCE NO. 11-18( )
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 18, ZONING, ARTICLE I, GENERAL PROVISIONS, AND
ARTICLE 11, BASIC REGULATIONS, OF THE CODE OF THE COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE, VIRGINIA
BE IT ORDAINED By the Board of Supervisors of the County of Albemarle, Virginia, that Chapter 18, Zoning,
Article I, General Regulations, and Article 11, Basic Regulations, are hereby amended and reordained as follows:
By Amending:
Sec. 3.1
Definitions
Sec. 4.2.1
Building site required
By Adding:
Sec. 2.1.7
Creation and use of special lots
Sec. 4.3.02
Special lots
Chapter 18. Zoning
Article I. General Regulations
See, 2.1.7 Creation and use of special lots
A special lot shall not be subject to the requirements of this chanter for the creation of a lot including, but not
limited to, the building site requirements in section 4.2.1. the frontage and lot width requirements in section
4.6.1, the area and bulk regulations of the zoning district in which the special lot is located and, for special lots
in the Rural Areas zoning district, the requirement in section 10.3 that each lot less than twenty-one (2 1) acres in
size have a development right. A special lot shall be subject to the requirements of this chapter pertaining to the
use of the special lot and the location of a building, structure, and improvements on a special lot.
Sec. 3.1 Definitions
Special lot: The term "special lot" means a lot created to be used exclusivelv for public or private streets
railroad rights-of-way and railroad lines, public utilities, publicly owned or operated public facilities, publicly
owned or operated parks, publicly or privately owned sites for personal wireless service facilities, central water
supplies and central sewerage systems as those terms are defined in chapter 16, stormwater management
facilities, cemeteries existing on June 8, 2011, conservation areas, preservation areas, open space, and
greenways.
Article 11. Basic Regulations
Sec. 4.2.1 Building site required
No lot or- pareel other than a special lot shall have less than one (1) building site. For purposes of this section,
the term "building site" shall mean a contiguous area of land in slopes of less than twenty-five (25) percent as
determined by reference to either topographic quadrangle maps of the Geological Survey - U. S. Department of
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Attachment C: Draft Subdivision Ordinance
Interior (contour interval twenty [20] feet) or a source determined by the county engineer to be of superior
accuracy, exclusive of:
-Sueh Any area as may be located in the flood hazard overlay district or which is located under water;
-Sueh Any area as may be located within two hundred (200) horizontal feet of the one hundred year flood plain
of any public drinking water impoundment or within one hundred (100) horizontal feet of the edge of any
tributary stream to such impoundment; (Amended 11-11-87)
-mak Any area as designated as a resource protection areas on the resource protection areas map
adopted pursuant to chapter 17 of the Code of Albemarle; provided that nothing contained herein shall be
deemed to prevent or impair the program authority from sof exercising
discretion as set forth in that or-dina-nee chanter. (Added 9-9-92)
Special lots shall be permitted in all zoning districts.
I, Ella W. Jordan, do hereby certify that the foregoing writing is a true, correct copy of an Ordinance duly
adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Albemarle County, Virginia, by a vote of to , as recorded
below, at a regular meeting held on
Ave Nay
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Mr. Boyd
Mr. Dorrier
Ms. Mallek
Mr. Rooker
Mr. Snow
Mr. Thomas
PA
Clerk, Board of County Supervisors