Prince William County leaders on Tuesday will be asked to make changes to the long-established Rural Crescent, a 117,000-acre tract of land consuming more than half of the county, where new development is limited to a minimum of 10-acre lots and water and sewer lines are banned.
County staff will recommend the Board of County Supervisors adopt a Rural Area Plan -- an update to the county's comprehensive plan from 2008 that would allow for new "rural character" areas, allowing for new cluster developments where new homes could be built on lots as small three acres.
If approved, the Board of County Supervisors would need to rezone a property before new homes are built. Two new zoning districts would be established: RC-3 and RC-5, where homes would be built on three and five-acre lots, respectively.
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