A permit for the proposed entrance to the intensive
poultry or hog facility access road must be obtained from the Virginia
Department of Transportation prior to application for a zoning permit.
A grower or potential grower may file with the
Zoning Administrator a development plan which indicates the number,
size and location of poultry facilities planned for the subject parcel.
When a poultry development plan has been approved and filed with the
Zoning Administrator and during the period in which it remains in
effect, the planned poultry facilities shall be obliged to meet setbacks
only from those dwellings, schools, churches, other nonagricultural
uses, zoning districts, town boundaries, designated growth areas,
water intakes and wells existing at the time the poultry development
plan is approved.
A. The poultry development plan shall be based on the
requirements of this section and shall be accompanied by a plat prepared
and signed by a land surveyor certified by the Commonwealth of Virginia
verifying the accuracy of the distances shown in the poultry development
plan.
B. The poultry development plan shall remain in force
only so long as the poultry facilities proposed are constructed in
accordance with the poultry development plan and are placed in service
in a timely manner.
C. At least one poultry facility indicated in the poultry
development plan must be constructed within 12 months of the date
of plan approval, unless at least one poultry facility is already
constructed on the subject parcel at the time the poultry development
plan is filed.
D. In the event that a grower fails to build a poultry
facility indicated in the poultry development plan within 12 months
of obtaining zoning approval or if a poultry facility existed at the
time the plan was approved and the grower fails to obtain zoning approval
for any of the additional poultry facilities as indicated on the plan
within a ten-year period, the Zoning Administrator shall review the
poultry development plan. If the plan could still be implemented as
is, or revised, to comply with the poultry regulations in effect at
the time of review, then it may be renewed as revised for five additional
years with five-year review periods continuing thereafter. If the
plan does not comply with current poultry regulations, it shall be
revoked and all future development of poultry facilities on the subject
parcel shall conform to the ordinance in effect at the time of zoning
permit application.