§ 54-7. Phased development.  


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  • A)

    The purpose of this section is to provide a flexible procedure to guarantee the provision of public improvements and dedications while providing reasonable certainty for the approval of phased and mixed use development. The Code of Virginia authorizes the county to provide in this chapter for the acceptance of dedication for public use of any right-of-way located within any subdivision or section thereof, which has constructed or proposed to be constructed within the subdivision or section thereof, any road, curb, gutter, sidewalk, bicycle trail, drainage or sewerage system, waterline as part of a public system or other improvement dedicated for public use, and maintained by the county, the Commonwealth, or other public agency, and for the provision of other site-related improvements required by local ordinances for vehicular ingress and egress, including traffic signalization and control, for public access roads, for structures necessary to ensure the stability of critical slopes, and for stormwater management facilities, financed or to be financed in whole or in part by private funds only if the developer, inter alia, furnishes to the board of supervisors a contract for the construction of such facilities and the contractor's bond, with like surety, in like amount and so conditioned.

    B)

    If the subdivider proposes to complete the improvements as shown on the preliminary plat, as enumerated in paragraph (A) hereto, over a period of more than one year, the preliminary plat shall show the entire development at completion, and delineate the timing and sequence of when the required improvements or dedications shall occur. After such preliminary plat has been approved, the subdivider may construct the improvements in and submit a final plat for each phase consistent with the approved preliminary plat. If a developer records a final plat which is a section of a subdivision as shown on an approved preliminary plat, the developer shall have the right to record the remaining sections shown on the preliminary plat for a period of five years from the recordation date of the first section.

    (Res. No. 10-01, § c, 6-14-2011, eff. 8-1-2011)

    State Law reference— Va. Code § 15.2-2241(5).

(Res. No. 10-01, § c, 6-14-2011, eff. 8-1-2011)

State law reference

Va. Code § 15.2-2241(5).