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self, but he said he’d been told he couldn’t do that without providing central water and sewer. This wasn’t fair, he argued, because some of the neighboring lots were no more than a half an acre in size.
George Davis said the land in that particular neighborhood had not been “divided by the county, but was partioned by suit in the Circuit Court.” That procedure took the matter out of the jurisdiction of the county’s existing subdivision ordinance, he said.
Sealock was unconvinced: “What’ll I do with that third child? Knock him in the head?”
Newbill Miller attempted an answer, elaborating on Davis’s point by noting that the 1962 subdivision ordinance did not require the Circuit Court to comply with the county’s ordinance. “I felt that it was a mistake for them to put in a substandard subdivision as a development. This new ordinance would prohibit such a situation arising in the first place.”
Mrs. Lucio Kilby of Sperryville had a question, the first of many she asked during the course of the hearing; she also had a small tape recorder for preserving the proceedings. She wanted details about whether a property consisting of “hundreds of acres” could not be divided but one time. Not so, said Davis, it could
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