HomeMy WebLinkAboutLOD199800008 Letter of Determination 1998-05-11May 11, 1998
Don Franco
Kessler Group
RE: Limestone Farm
Tax Map 94, Parcels 12B, 12B1, 12132, 14 and 18
Dear Don:
This letter is in response to your verbal request for information regarding the development potential
of the above noted properties. A quick check of our files found no applications for any zoning
items (signs, home occupations, clearances, rezonings, special use permits, etc.) There was one
subdivision file in the Planning Department where parcel 14A was created and used one
development right from parcel 14 in 1986.
The following table depicts the remaining hypothetical development rights for each of the parcels
noted above. No research was done to verify these numbers other than stated in paragraph one.
Tax Map — Parcel
(Parent Parcels)
Assessed Acreage Lots Utilizing
From County Real Development Rights
Estate Records 2 to 20 acres
Lots of
Twenty-one Acres
or Greater
94-12B
274.97 5
12
94-12131
0.19 0
0
94-12132
27.34 4
0
94-14
35.735 5
1
94-18
128.5 5
5
TOTAL
466.735 19
18
In developing a conventional subdivision, each lot utilizing a development right would have to
contain a two -acre portion of the "parent parcel' from which its development right came. The lots
with twenty-one acres can be composed of parts of any of the "parent parcels."
If you were to develop a rural preservation development (RPD), you would not have to consider the
locations of the "parent parcels." The maximum potential development of these parcels is 37 lots.
In an RPD, you could have a maximum of 222 acres in a maximum of 36 development lots and the
roads necessary to serve them. The preservation tract would be a minimum of 244.735 acres with
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only one dwelling allowed. If you wanted to create more than one preservation tract, you would
have to lose one development lot and six acres for each additional preservation tract desired. The
total number of lots remains the same. The number of preservation tracts is a discretionary design
feature that can be allowed only by Planning Commission approval during the special use permit
and/or subdivision review. Please read Section 10.3.3 of the Zoning Ordinance for additional
information and design standards related to RPD's.
Either of the developments discussed requires compliance with all other ordinance regulations.
Items such as soil studies, health department review, erosion control, road construction standards,
Virginia Department of Transportation review, lot layout, documents for the easement on the
preservation tract, etc. will all be considered at the time of submittal.
I hope this is the information you were seeking. If you have further questions, please call me again.
Sincerely,
Jan Sprinkle
Chief of Zoning Administration
Cc: Mary Bess McCray Johnson, owner
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