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Board allows Yoder lot split: easement will serve new buildable tract
Summary
The BZA approved a development-standards variance to allow Orvin and Ruth Yoder to create a buildable 10‑acre tract accessed by a long-standing 25-foot easement, after staff confirmed setbacks can be met using the easement as access.
The Noble County BZA approved a variance that lets the Yoders subdivide a parcel and create a buildable lot using an existing 25-foot easement for access. Planning staff said the easement has been used for decades and that the proposed new parcel’s setbacks can be satisfied when the easement is treated as the access route.
Ryan Kepler, representing the applicants, summarized the parcel history and the planned split: "The 2.759 acre tract was originally split, 1986... This continues that same trend down the line where another 10 acre tract, to be split out there for a buildable site.... The new tract would be accessed by the same 25 foot easement." The board moved to findings of fact, read the criteria, and members voting on the record agreed the approval would not injure the public welfare and the variance was granted.
