So this Friday the county I live in here in NC is voting on a new ordinance that is expected to pass. It has kind of blown up on social media and maybe gotten a little more attention than they had intended.

Paraphrasing, it says that a track of land must be more than 5 acres to be subdivided. So if I own 4 acres, I can't sell my brother two acres for him to build a house.

I understand the goal of this is to slow the development that we are seeing, but I don't see how this impacts that? Large developments are always on bigger tracks of land, so this ordinance won't affect them. This ordinance also does not apply within the city limits, only in the county. I'm having trouble seeing how this doesn't do anything but further hinder the common man without affecting the developers.

Thoughts?

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Depends on where you live, but county where I live has planning and zoning, and area where I live in this county is zoned for Ag use and minimum lot size is 10 acres. Can't divide smaller than that. County where I grew up has no zoning and you can pretty much do whatever you want to there.

Sounds like where OP lives has decided to start implementing some zoning type restrictions. Some of it makes sense........like not allowing 160 acres to be subdivided into 320 half acre lots when there are no roads or utilities to serve 320 lots. Other areas have those rules so control freaks get to run things. I know one guy who never belonged to a homeowner's association he didn't want to be president of. He tends to be a jerk about it.

If the minimum lot size I guess I can understand their logic. But if they would let you subdivide 6 acres into 12 half acre lots, then that doesn't seems right.
5 acre minimum would mean you would need at least 10 acres to then subdivide.
What is the proposed minimum lot size?

More power to government and more restrictions on the people is never a good thing. It always claims to be for the good and it always creeps and gets more and more restrictive over time.

here many townships have a minimum 5,10,15,20 acres to make them buildable

you can divide them up all you want but you can't build anything if you haven't the land to do it

you need room for a septic field

it helps to keep the township rural-ish
if you want to build on 1/2 acre lots you need to form a village or annex into a village or city

Pretty much the dame here...need i 1 acre to build on

10 and 15 is getting more common , people who live in a township don't want a neighbor 50 feet over

where my brother is it is 3 acre minimum
my inlaws were 1 acre and they have a neighbor 50 feet from either side of the house

if you go one acre here they will ring every single farm field with 100 foot wide 435 foot deep lots and in a few years be petitioning the county to drop the speed limit to 25 on the county road

The town I lived in previously here in NJ, had a 10 acre minimum to subdivide, unless grandfathered in. Frankly, it was one of the things I loved about the town, and the property. I owned 8 acres, and it was easy to see what the neighbors owned around me, and know what could/couldn't be subdivided or built on etc. But this was also a town of 1600 residents, scattered across 39ish square acres.

I am on 320
Minimum is 40 ac
County is mostly 5 ac with some being 1 ac
It was intended to not allow city’s to speak to the county and remove land from production

Has not worked very well
County south of me
Home has to be set back 425 ft to obtain a building permit in rural area

I like it
I do not want a small city in the middle of farm ground
Smells, noise and redneck do not mix well with city morons

Township I grew up in you had to own 80 acres to build a house. Current township you only need 5 acres BUT you can only have 1 house per 1/4 - 1/4 section. So if you own the whole 1/4-1/4 section except for a half acre your neighbor owns and they already have a home there your screwed.

That's how it is here now. You have to have an acre. So in the past if you had 5 acres, and it would pass a perc test in 5 areas (unlikely here), you could build 5 houses on it. Not anymore

I'll also add that the going rate for land here is around $20,000 per acre, so 5 acres would cost you $100,000