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Warren County supervisors approve conditional use permit for Amber R. Jones short‑term rental, 4‑1
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a conditional use permit allowing Amber R. Jones to operate a short‑term tourist rental on property in Green Hill Forest with staff‑recommended health and safety conditions; one supervisor voted no.
Warren County supervisors voted to approve a conditional use permit allowing Amber R. Jones to operate a short‑term tourist rental from a three‑bedroom dwelling in the Green Hill Forest subdivision.
Planning staff told the board the dwelling, built in 1981, had been advertised and operated as a short‑term rental without a permit and that a notice of violation was issued in September 2024; the applicant removed the advertisement. A Warren County Health Department operation permit limits the property to a maximum of six occupants. Planning staff recommended approval with four conditions addressing compliance with health, building and fire codes; occupancy limited to the health‑department capacity under Warren County Code subsection 180‑56.4; annual well testing for E. coli and coliform with results provided to staff; and septic system servicing at five‑year intervals with proof provided to planning staff.
Applicant Amber Jones told the board she and her husband are local residents (she is a teacher; he is a home inspector), that the property is a family cabin she purchased from her father, and that she and her family may live there in the future. "My dad, it was his prayer cabin. He was a pastor at Dynamic Life," Jones said during the hearing.
After the public hearing, a motion to approve the permit with the planning commission and staff conditions passed on a roll call vote: four supervisors voted aye and one voted no. The board required health‑department approval and documentation as a condition of the certificate of zoning.
The approval allows the property to operate as a short‑term lodging unit provided the conditions are met; the board did not alter the occupancy limit set by the health department. The planning staff record notes two letters of neighbor concern were received and that the applicant lives within the county’s 30‑mile property management distance requirement.
The permit and its conditions will be enforced through the county’s zoning and health inspection processes; the county’s staff presentation said adjacent property owners were notified and the public hearing properly advertised.
