Article 27, Section 27-7
Dimensional standards
Lot
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- All lands in the county except those within corporate limits of any town, rural village overlay districtOverlay districtA second set of rules laid over the base district, adding requirements without replacing it., and lands under ownership/control of US, Commonwealth of Virginia, or agency thereof.
Uses
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Co-holder required
Each such easement shall originate as a co-held easement, with the co-holder being a qualified non-public body.
- Minimum parcel size for division20 acresacre43,560 square feet — about the size of an American football field without the end zones.
No parcel shall be further divided so as to create any parcel containing less than 20 acres.
- Annual monitoring visits
Monitor the accepted easement sites with annual stewardship visits to determine compliance with the deed of easement.
- No buy-back option
The owner shall not have the option to reacquire any property rights relinquished under the conservation easement.
- No minimum size for parent parcel
There shall be no minimum size requirement for the 'parent' conservation easement parcel.
- Perpetual easement
Each conservation easement shall conform with the requirements of the Open-Space Land Act of 1966 (Code of Virginia § 10.1-1700 et seq.) and of this Article and be perpetual.
From the ordinance
No parcel shall be further divided so as to create any parcel containing less than 20 acres.