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On June 8,
2006, the Board of Supervisors approved the first of a
series of Subdivision Ordinance text amendments to
facilitate subdivision of commercial and industrially zoned
properties. All commercial and industrial subdivisions are
now administratively approved.
The second
change is the addition of an infrastructure plan element to
the construction plan process. As envisioned, an
infrastructure plan would permit the development of discrete
public or private streets, utilities and stormwater
management facilities without the specific details required
in a site plan. This amendment would enable the creation of
commercial/industrial lots as pad sites for future
development. Any development on these parcels will require
site plan review for specifics such as building location,
parking, on-site stormwater management, landscaping,
buffering, etc.
The proposed
Subdivision Ordinance text amendments are primarily to
address the Board of Supervisors’ request to facilitate
subdivision of commercial and industrially zoned
properties. The balance of the amendment generally is for
clarification, and to mirror the actual review process.
The proposed
addition of Section 4-32 – Hydric Soils, moves the
requirement for wetland information to the Preliminary Plat
stage for residential subdivisions rather than the
construction plan stage of review. With the amendment, if
the County Soils Map or the applicant’s soils report
indicates hydric soils or soils with hydric inclusions soils
on a property, the applicant must submit a U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers (USACOE) Jurisdictional Determination with the
submission of the preliminary plat or infrastructure plan.
This technical information will help ensure that an
applicant can in fact build to the proposed design. USACOE
permitting continues to be one of the principal reasons
resulting in major project redesigns.
The edits
shown in the ordinance in red
text and with black strikethrough reflect the Planning
Commission’s recommendation. Staff has refined the language
to reflect some additional edits, which are shown in
blue text.
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