come up with something that would help influence the

come up with something that would help influence the type of business that would be located on the rezoned lot.

“What was the vote on that?” Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis asked of Pete Luke. “I think the Supervisors are entitled to know if it was not unanimous.” Luke said he and Stokes had voted for it, Masterson had not and Barksdale didn’t vote.

“Well, there should be an onsite inspection, by the governing body,” Davis said. “If I’m going to have to defend the governing body in the courts, I want to be in the best possible position to do so.”

“I’ve been out there myself a number of times and looked it over,” Pete Luke said. “What do you want us to look for—what criteria?”

Supervisor Herbert Foster said he’d like to go. “Just to look at the lot, see what end of the building is where. The Supervisors’ meeting was recessed until 1 o’clock. The Supervisors and a number of onlookers, including Jenkins, went to Amissville. Comments made by several supervisors at the site indicated they would vote for the rezoning when they returned.

The Supervisors returned to the courtroom shortly afternoon. Pete Luke said the on-site inspection left him more convinced than ever that Jenkins’s station at the new location wouldn’t change the character of the community. “I’m glad we went down there for that,” Herbert Foster said. “There are only a few places you can locate a business on a four-land highway,” Dick Latham said, noting the extensive cuts and fills along the highway. “You’d either be up on a hill or down in a hole.”

Since the Supervisors had said they’d reconvene at 1 o’clock, they went ahead with other items of business before calling a vote of the rezoning request.

AT 1 O’CLOCK, Luke said he’d written the Planning Commission recommendation to be “as explicit as possible, since we don’t have a site plan ordinance...It was my thinking to specifically require the evergreens for screening, instead of a fence or something,