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From Fage 1 nodded his head when Mrs. Latham said, "Now, you’ve already told me you wouldn’t want it.”
ELMER JENKINS was also armed with photographs. Several of them showed that Mrs. Latham's
nqjy house is within sight of his existing garage, he said. Other pictures showed the distance between the proposed location of his new station and Mrs. Latham’s house. The difference wasn’t much; her house couldn’t be much closer .to his new business than it is now, he concluded.
During the hearing, W.G. Eastham Sr. spoke in favor of the rezoning, saying Jenkins needs to relocate in the Amissville area to stay in business and Amissville people needed the services he could provide. Furthermore, Eastham added, he would not object in the least to having the station in front of his house. Mrs. Latham’s daughter, Sally Mann, commented:
“We’ll sell you some^land.”
REAL ESTATE broker J. Newbill Miller spoke at Mrs. Latham’s request. Noting that he was not speaking either in favor or against the rezoning, Miller said it was his “professional opinion” that the location of Jenkins’s garage on the lots for which he requested rezoning would devalue Mrs. Latham’s property by $15,000. Her property lies partly behind the lots Jenkins has bought.
Roger Batchelder said he had helped Jenkins try to find property on which to relocate his station. After a year-long search, Batchelder said, he could only find two sites. At one site, the owners were only willing to sell 100 feet of road frontage and the county zoning ordinance requires 250 feet of frontage for a service station. The other site was the property next to Mrs. Latham.
Mrs. Latham wanted to know why Jenkins insisted on locating
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