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Virginia has enabling legislation for TDR but no one uses it because it’s not practical. There are a few localities that use a purchase program with open space easements. I am in the process of developing a company that would administer a TDR/PDR/LDR program for localities, and save them a ton of money. The legislation allows density transfers and I want to operate a “bank”, so receiving area ...

We only require PE stamps or architect stamps on plans submitted after the Planning review process. Our codes only require stamps on on building permits sets. We always do a review of the stamped sets in planning to make sure that all the site plan elements that were approved are on the plans (and not changed). In my last fair city, we required stamped architectural and stamped engineering ...

Do you have a floodplain management ordinance ? Usual language found in floodplain management ordinances that addresses your question: Provisions for Flood Hazard Reduction. Section A. General Standards. In all SFHAs and known flood prone areas the following provisions are required: (6) New and replacement water supply systems shall be designed to minimize or eliminate ...

You probably want to think of this as "once platted, always platted and can't be unplatted." If they want to vacate a portion of a parcel(s), then what they're really doing is moving lot lines. I would say that they could amend the existing plat but no portion of it can be unplatted (converted to metes and bounds).

I will echo the other comments - if you want to have a 'forever' view of the lake, you should buy (have bought?) the lot that is closest to the lake. If there is non-park or other non-reserved land near yours that can be legally built on, even if it requires something like a lot-line adjustment to be 'legal', *EXPECT* that you WILL someday see something being built on it. Mike

For these types of situations, if the proposal meets certain criteria (ie less than one acre, no new street/public easements, no variations, etc) they get to skip the preliminary plat review process and just go straight to final review. Final review is pretty much a administrative process, except it still has to be reviewed by the Plan Commission at a public meeting (as opposed to a public ...

I get these types of calls periodically. I think it is the bank being too conservative (I know....that's probably good considering banks' having ruined our economy). I don't seem to understand their reasoning. How long have we had zoning is most US cities? 50-80 years? How long have banks being financing purchases of nonconforming buildings? In the situation you give, dandy, I ...