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coming a popularity contest.
Planning Commission Chairman Herbert Barksdale then closed the hearing and the Planning Commissioners retired to the back room to deliberate in private and make their recommendation. Supervisor Chairman Pete Luke said he wanted to be sure that Mr. Jenkins knew the outcome that afternoon.
The planners, chairman Herbert Barksdale, Allan Stokes, Walter Masterson, and Pete Luke, who serves as the Supervisors’ representative on the Planning Commission, stayed in the back room for nearly an hour.
Herbert Barksdale was clearly against the rezoning request, a point he’d made at the November meeting of the Planning Commission when Jenkins appeared to ask for a hearing. Barksdale felt the rezoning would amount to “spot zoning” for commercial use in an agricultural district. “That's something we’ve been against all along,” he said. But Barksdale said the public was cleanly in favor in the rezoning. A. Stokes hadn’t been at the Planning Commission meeting in October when the rezoning request was first discussed. He wasn’t sure how he felt.
Walter Masterson, attending his first hearing as a Planning Commissioner since his appointment in December, leaned against the rezoning.
BUT PETE LUKE was in favor, He had said so at the earlier meeting. Luke felt that the Highway Department had put Jenkins out of business and the county had some responsibility to see that he could continue to make a living. Luke didn’t feel that the rezoning fit the usual connotation of spot rezoning. It wouldn’t, he argued, actually change the character of the Amissville community.
Although Amissville was zoned as agriculture, it already had a “commercial character.” Between Lombardy’s Restaurant and Early’s Carpet Sales business, there are 24 houses and 12 business, Luke said. It is more spread out than other villages like Flint Hill, Sperryville or Woodville, but it is already a business strip, Luke said.
With Stokes undecided and Masterson and Barksdale opposed to the rezoning, Luke said that he would offer a recommendation of his own, supporting the rezoning request, if the other Planning Commissioners voted against it. Luke drew up the recommendation and the vote was called. Stokes and Luke voted in favor and Walter Masterson voted against it. Herbert Barksdale didn’t vote, since the chairman is required to vote only in the case of a tie.
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