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Board approves plat vacation to combine Cherry Grove recreation lots into single Holmes property
Summary
The Isle of Wight Board approved a request from Richard and Beverly Holmes to vacate recreation‑area designations in Cherry Grove Acres Sections 1 and 2, allowing a boundary line adjustment to combine parcels. Staff required the applicants to submit a boundary‑line adjustment plat for review and recordation within six months.
The Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a plat vacation request from Richard and Beverly Holmes to remove the recreation‑area designation from two small platted lots in Cherry Grove Acres and allow the applicants to consolidate those lots with their adjoining property.
Caleb Kitchen, county planning staff, told the board Section 1’s recreation lot measures 1.18 acres and Section 2’s measures 0.86 acres; both were platted as required recreational lots under the subdivision ordinance in the 1970s. Kitchen noted the subdivision ordinance requirement for recreational dedication was removed by an amendment in December 1981, and staff recommended approval only if the applicant submitted a boundary line adjustment plat for review and recordation within six months.
Applicant Richard Holmes spoke at the hearing. “We bought it to keep anything from happening,” Holmes said, adding the couple had no present intention to develop or clear the property. Several supervisors asked procedural questions about what future subdivision would require; staff and the county attorney clarified that combining the three parcels into one would not permit administrative creation of new lots and that any future division or increase in density would be subject to planning commission and board review, proffers and public hearings as required by ordinance.
The board approved the application with the staff condition. Staff will monitor submission of the boundary line adjustment plat and return confirmation to the county’s Community Development office.
Ending: The approval allows the Holmeses to combine lots for a single tax/insurance bill, but does not change zoning classifications; the combined parcel will retain split zoning between Rural Agricultural Conservation (RAC) and Neighborhood Conservation (NC) and any future development would require the normal review process.
