Carroll County:
“One Carroll County supervisor had concerns about road
standards for a new kind of subdivision and a citizen made several objections
at the April 14 board meeting, but all other speakers and county officials
addressing proposed changes to the subdivision ordinance supported the new
ideas.
Carroll supervisors dealt with several subdivision ordinance
modifications at the March meeting, but put on hold decisions involving the
creation of a class C subdivision and flag lots. A class C subdivision
designation, as proposed, places limits a development to five lots on a minimum
1.5 acres each, accessed by a minimum 18-foot-wide street. Flag lots involve a
way of getting access to a tract of land that does not have public road
frontage.
When the time came for the April joint public hearing with
the planning commission, most of the speakers said that these standards would
help with development in Carroll. But citizen Janet Tate launched into her
concerns even before the public hearing, during citizens’ comment time, by
bringing up statistics about narrow and winding roads that serve housing
developments.”
~Writes Christopher Brooke of the Galax Gazette
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