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Supervisors remove 'data processing facility' term from county zoning ordinance

Smyth County Board of Supervisors · July 10, 2026

Summary

Following a Planning Commission recommendation, the board voted unanimously to remove the 'call center and/or data processing facility' term and related definitions from multiple sections of the zoning ordinance; the commission will later consider a revised definition and special-use framework.

Staff reported that, after a public hearing, the Planning Commission recommended repealing the 'call center and/or data processing facility' term from commercial and industrial districts and removing it from the zoning ordinance definition. "So what the board just did was approve the planning commission's recommendation to take data processing facility out of our zoning ordinance," a staff member summarized for the record.

Board members discussed the effect of removing the vague definition: without the term in the code there would be no zoning mechanism to allow such facilities until the commission brings forward a new definition and process; the Planning Commission has tabled the addition of a replacement definition and will revisit it in two weeks. A motion to accept the recommendation carried unanimously.

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