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| Lynchburg
Traditional Neighborhood Development Ordinance, City of Lynchburg, Virginia:
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| Sympoetica worked with City staff and development community
to prepare an amendment to the City's Zoning Ordinance to permit a Neo-traditional@
development. The design principles articulated the community-creating
goals of mixed use, a variety of housing types and densities, connecting
street and pedestrian and bicycle path systems, community squares, parks,
and meeting places, and integration of civic uses. The result will be
infill development in the City modeled on the successful patterns of
older neighborhoods and towns. This ordinance received an award in 1999
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Residential-Conservation
District Regulations, Fairfax County, Virginia:
To assist in the implementation of the County's Occoquan Basin water quality
protection plan, Phoebe Kilby prepared an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance
to allow cluster subdivisions in the Residential-Conservation District.
The district originally limited lot sizes to a minimum of 5 acres. The
cluster option permits lot sizes as small as 36,000 square feet with a
maximum overall density of .2 du per acre and a minimum open space requirement
of 50%. This was one of the first "super cluster" conservation
subdivision ordinances in Virginia.
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Zoning Ordinance Revisions, Town
of Stephens City, Virginia:
In order to implement its new Comprehensive Plan, the Town of Stephens
City hired Sympoetica to prepare revisions to the Zoning Ordinance addressing
open space requirements in residential zoning districts, nuisances, environmental
performance standards, and landscaping and screening. Sympoetica also
completely revised the industrial districts section of the zoning ordinance
and developed regulations for a new source water assessment program overlay
district to protect the water supply. |
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| Old Valley Pike Corridor Overlay District Ordinance and
Design Guidelines, Shenandoah County, Virginia |
As planning consultant to Shenandoah County, Sympoetica
worked closely with County staff, local town representatives, and a County-appointed
stakeholder committee to develop the Old Valley Pike Corridor Overlay
District Ordinance and Design Guidelines. This year-long process resulted
in a comprehensive set of “OVP” companion documents that
together allow the County to achieve a future vision for the U.S. Route
11 corridor that would protect the scenic and rural character of the
corridor, promote and create attractive gateways to the County’s
historic towns and villages, insure adequate traffic operation, and promote
tourism and economic development. The corridor ordinance and design guidelines
were approved by the county Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors
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Stream Buffer Protection
Ordinance, Shenandoah County, Virginia:
An amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to require the preservation of a
100-foot buffer of natural vegetation along all county perennial streams,
this regulation was designed to implement a part of the County's adopted
Nutrient Reduction Plan for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. |
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| Also of note:
- Floodplain Regulations, Durham, North Carolina
- Septic Drainfields Regulations, Shenandoah County, Virginia
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