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Planning commission tables Byler property split, urges Board to consider 10‑acre notification threshold
Summary
The commission tabled the Andy & Lydia Byler property division after county staff said adjoining owners must be notified by certified mail under a 2019 subdivision ordinance; the commission voted 5–0 to recommend the Board of Supervisors consider reducing the notification trigger to 10 acres.
The Tazewell County Planning Commission on March 13 tabled a proposed division of the Andy and Lydia Byler property on Burkes Garden Road until the applicant provides proof that adjoining property owners were notified by certified mail as required by a subdivision ordinance adopted in 2019.
Surveyor Jim Ribble said the parcels have no water or sewer and therefore would require a variance. County Attorney Chase Collins and Director of Engineering Kenneth Dunford told the commission the division could not be approved without certified‑mail notification to adjoining owners, a process the commission applied in a similar case in September 2024.
Ribble said he had not been required to follow the procedure for prior divisions. Collins confirmed the 2019 ordinance applies to subdivisions with three or more splits. After discussing possible revisions — with Dunford suggesting a threshold of anything less than 10 acres and Collins offering the commission consider a change — the commission approved a formal recommendation to the Board of Supervisors that the ordinance’s notification threshold be set at 10 acres or less. Member Lance Wimmer moved the recommendation; Member Anthony Ramella seconded, and the motion passed 5–0 with two members absent.
The commission also directed that the Byler division be returned to a future agenda after the applicant provides proof of certified‑mail notifications. Any formal change to the ordinance would require Board of Supervisors action.
