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AFTER presenting the letters and petition, Captain Stuart noted that he had served on the Rappahannock County Planning Commission when the first zoning ordinance was drawn up in 1961. At that time, Amissville was not zoned as residential-business district like the communities of Sperryville, Flint Hill and Woodville, because it was stretched out farther along the highway , was not as compact or densely developed. It was the thinking of the Planning Commission at that time, Stuart said, to let the community develop slowly without interference, at its pace, instead making it a “strip zone” from the start.
Under the ordinance, in effect when this action was taken, Stuart said, it was fairly easy for land- . owners to open a grocery store of service station in the area. Stuart said that he felt the new ordinance “had messed that up.”
Captain William Keim said he^ was very much in favor of the re-* zoning. Although he is usually opposed to the concept of “spot zoning,” Keim said that extenuating circumstances made Mr. Jenkins's an exceptional case. This rezoning was very much merited, he said. Keim added that he thought commercial aras should develop along major highways, like 211. Rural roads should remain rural.
Keim introduced himself as "a friend of Mr. Jenkins and, 1 hope, Mrs. Latham.” Several other speakers did the same thing.
W.G. EASTHAM SR. said he also thought Jenkins’s garage was important to the Amissville community. He made a little speech, saying that people can’t afford to buy new things much anymore, and they need a garage like Jenkins's to help them keep what they’ve got in good repair.
Bobby Carter, Paul Polling and William Printz all stated that they were in favor of the rezoning, too.
Bill Lyne said that the planners and Supervisors couldn’t possibly come to a decision that would satisfy everybody, but he hoped they could make a decision for the good of the public.
Roger Batchelder asked Planning Commission Chairman Herbert Barksdale if the audience at the hearing could be polled on their opinion about the rezoning. A count of 54 people in favor was made by a show of hands. Approximately 7U people were present.
MRS. LATHAM’S daughter requested that a poll should be taken of only those affected. “But we're all affected,” Barksdale said, adding that whatever was decided ■ would become a precedent that might be applied anvwhere in the
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