Land Use Plan – 2002 - Stanly County, North Carolina

Figure 6-3 Images 1, 2, and 3 illustrate the recommendations for the conservation area relative to existing zoning for
a typical 20-acre lot. In the top illustration, a 20-acre lot is used for farmland along with the original farmstead. The lot
possesses frontages on all sides. The middle image illustrates the development of the same 20-acre lot under the R-
A, Residential-Agriculture Zoning. Each lot meets the minimum lot size of approximately one dwelling unit per acre,
and no farmland is protected. The bottom image illustrates the same development using a one-acre flexible
development density. Twenty lots are created from the original lot, with the minimum lot size determined by the
minimum land area necessary to accommodate a well, septic system, and back-up system. Minimum lot sizes may
be less than the one acre indicated. Under this scenario nine acres of farmland are protected.
Source: Woolpert LLP, 2002.