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The Town of
Leesburg,
Virginia
PRESENTED February 12.2008
ORDINANCE NO. 2008-0-6
ADOPTED February 12.2008
AN ORDINANCE: APPROVING APPLICATION TLOA-2008-0001 MINOR
SUBDIVSION PLAT TO AMEND THE SUBDIVISION AND LAND
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS TO RE-ESTABLISH CRITERIA
AND A REVIEW PROCESS FOR MINOR SUBDIVSION PLATS.
WHEREAS, Town Council endorsed staffs decision to investigate the possibility of
returning the Minor Subdivision Plat as an option for processing small scale subdivision
applications on December 10,2007; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held a public hearing on February 7, 2008,
pertaining to the draft amendments to the Subdivision and Land Development Regulations on the
matter; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission forwarded the proposed amendments to the Town
Council with a favorable recommendation subject to some minor changes to the initial draft; and
WHEREAS, the Town Council held a public hearing on these amendments on February
12,2008:
THEREFORE, RESOLVED by the Council of the Town of Leesburg in Virginia, as
follows:
SECTION I. Leesburg Subdivision and Land Development Regulations Section 13-55.3
is hereby amended as shown below:
13-55.3
Minor Subdivisions
(a) Intent. The intent of this Article is to provide for the subdivision of a tract or
parcel into not more than five (5) lots. including any remainder proposed to be
retained. in instances where construction drawings are not required as part of the
subdivision approval.
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AN ORDINANCE: APPROVING APPLICATION TLOA-2008-000l MINOR
SUBDIVISION PLAT TO AMEND THE SUBDIVISION AND LAND
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS TO RE-ESTABLISH CRITERIA
AND A REVIEW PROCESS FOR MINOR SUBDIVISION PLAT
APPLICATIONS.
(b) Applicability. A minor subdivision shall be accepted for review only if the
following conditions are satisfied:
(1.) Full frontage improvements (ie. curb, gutter, sidewalk, and storm sewer)
exist across the frontage of the proposed lots.
(2.) No water or sanitary sewer mains are needed or proposed, and RO laterals
extend across a lot that it does not serve.
(3.) No underground storm sewers are needed or proposed, except for
necessary surface drainage swales.
(4.) The street right-of-way meets the requirements of these regulations. or
dedication of required right-of-way is made as part of the proposed
subdivision.
(5.) No new streets are needed or proposed.
(6.) No vacation of streets is needed or proposed.
(7.) No pipestem lot or cluster subdivision can be created as part of the minor
subdivision.
(8.) No variation of the Subdivision and Land Development Regl:llatiofls aBd
no variance of the Zoning Ordinance is needed or proposed.
Any subdivision application not meeting the above criteria shall be required to submit a
preliminary subdivision plat pursuant to section 13-56.
(c) Pre-Application Conference. Prior to submitting an application for minor
subdivision plat approval. the applicant shall meet with representatives of both the
Planning and Engineering Departments to review a sketch plan of the proposed
subdivision to determine if the proposal qualifies to be processed as a minor
subdivision. Written comments from this meeting shall be provided to the
applicant within five days.
(d) Plat Processing. Subdivisions meeting all the criteria listed above shall require
only the submission of a final plat pursuant to section 13-62( c). A minor
subdivision applicant may, at his option, elect to follow the regular subdivision
submission requirements.
SECTION II. This Ordinance shall become effective upon the date and at the time of its
final passage.
SECTION III. If any provision of this ordinance is declared invalid, the decision shall not
affect the validity of the ordinances as a whole or any remaining provisions of the ordinance.
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AN ORDINANCE: APPROVING APPLICATION TLOA-2008-0001 MINOR
SUBDIVISION PLAT TO AMEND THE SUBDIVISION AND LAND
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS TO RE-ESTABLISH CRITERIA
AND A REVIEW PROCESS FOR MINOR SUBDIVISION PLAT
APPLICATIONS.
PASSED this 12th day of February 2008.
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