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Gihan & Buddini Martin: construct a dwelling (Galway Bay Lane)

  1. Board of Zoning Appeals hearing (county’s record, Oct 6)Oct 6

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Gihan & Buddini Martin, owners, have asked for a variance to the Northumberland County Zoning Ordinance to construct a dwelling.1 The property is Tax Map Parcel # 54-(1)-54-I on Galway Bay Lane.1 Under Article II, Sections 148-9 & 10, the dwelling would have less than the required 450 feet of minimum frontage.1 It would also be less than the required 125 feet from the center line of the street right-of-way.1 The Northumberland County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on October 6, 2026 to consider the request.2

Summarized from the county’s records, October 13.

Where each sentence comes from
  1. “Request by Gihan & Buddini Martin, owners, for a variance to the Northumberland County Zoning Ordinance, Article II, Sections 148-9 & 10 to construct a dwelling” … “The property is located on Tax Map Parcel # 54-(1)-54-I on Galway Bay Lane.” … “Article II, Sections 148-9 & 10 to construct a dwelling with less than the required 450 feet of minimum frontage” … “less than the required 125 feet from the center line of the street right-of-way”The matter as the records title it
  2. “Northumberland County Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a public hearing on October 6, 2026”Board of Zoning Appeals Public Hearing - Request by Martin and Roth - October 6, · full text

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The official wording

Request by Gihan & Buddini Martin, owners, for a variance to the Northumberland County Zoning Ordinance, Article II, Sections 148-9 & 10 to construct a dwelling with less than the required 450 feet of minimum frontage… Show all

Request by Gihan & Buddini Martin, owners, for a variance to the Northumberland County Zoning Ordinance, Article II, Sections 148-9 & 10 to construct a dwelling with less than the required 450 feet of minimum frontage and less than the required 125 feet from the center line of the street right-of-way. The property is located on Tax Map Parcel # 54-(1)-54-I on Galway Bay Lane.

Words the law defines

  • Variance
    “‘Variance’ means, in the application of a zoning ordinance, a reasonable deviation from those provisions regulating the shape, size, or area of a lot or parcel of land or the size, height, area, bulk, or location of a building or structure when the strict application of the ordinance would unreasonably restrict the utilization of the property, and such need for a variance would not be shared generally by other properties, and provided such variance is not contrary to the purpose of the ordinance.”

    Code of Virginia § 15.2-2201, Chapter 22. Planning, Subdivision of Land and Zoning

What’s happened

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    Board of Zoning Appeals

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The records

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How a variance is decided

A variance lets an owner depart from a specific zoning rule, such as a setback or frontage requirement, on one property.

The Board of Zoning Appeals decides variances after an advertised public hearing. State law sets the standard it must apply.

The law: Va. Code § 15.2-2309 (Powers and duties of boards of zoning appeals); Va. Code § 15.2-2204 (Advertising public hearings). This describes the general process, not this decision.