HomeMy WebLinkAboutZTA201100003 Legacy Document 2012-06-26COUNTY OF ALBEMARLE
Department of Community Development
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Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 -4596
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MEMORANDUM
TO: File
FROM: Amelia McCulley, Director of Zoning
DATE: June 10, 2011
RE: ZTA- 2011 -0003. Special Lots
The Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, at its meeting on June 1, 2011, by a vote of 6:0,
recommended approval of the above -noted Zoning Text Amendment.
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 18, ZONING, ARTICLE I, GENERAL PROVISIONS, AND
ARTICLE II, 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 II, 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
Sec. 2.1.7 Creation and use of special lots
A special lot shall not be subject to the requirements of this chapter 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 (21) 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 exclusively 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 II. Basic Regulations
Sec. 4.2.1 Building site required
No lot 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 Interior (contour interval twenty [20] feet) or a source determined by the county engineer to
be of superior accuracy, exclusive of:
Any area located in the flood hazard overlay district or which is located under water;
Any area 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)
Any area 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 exercising discretion as set forth in that chapter. (Added 9-
9-92)
Sec. 4.3.02 Special lots
Special lots shall be permitted in all zoning districts.