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Tazewell County zoning board approves special use and three variances for dwelling sites, accessory structures and parcel split
Summary
The Tazewell County Zoning Board granted a special use to create a new dwelling site and approved three variances — for accessory building additions, size/height of a detached garage, and reduced road frontage for an agricultural parcel split — in a meeting that concluded with unanimous approvals.
The Tazewell County Zoning Board on an evening hearing approved a special use to create a new dwelling site in an A-1 Agricultural Preservation District and granted three variances involving accessory structures and parcel frontage.
Attorney Mark Rossi presented the first petition, saying the petitioners, Matthew and Leanne White, intend “to build a single-family, two-story residence on the tract,” a wooded, roughly 7.268-acre site accessed off Center Road. The board’s Tri-County planner recommended approval and the board approved the findings of fact and the special use by recorded vote.
Why it matters: the approvals allow one new dwelling to be sited in a predominantly timbered back corner of a farm parcel without further removing active farmland, but will create a flag lot the board noted can slow emergency access. The other approvals clear property owners to expand or place accessory buildings that exceed…
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