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around the villages or in open space.”
“You gotta amend the ordinance if you want to do that,” George Davis said. “You don’t zone by exception.”
Pete Luke suggested a compromise. “The Board of Supervisors should write the Planning Commission and ask them to take steps to rezone the Amissville area from agriculture to residential-business,” he said.
That didn’t suit the Planning Commissioners. “We’re not to take it upon ourselves to rezone all of Amissville,” Chairman Herbert Barksdale quickly said. “It’s got to come from them, the people of Amissville,” commissioner A.Y. Stokes added.
Barksdale said he was sympathetic with George Davis’s earlier point—that it weakens theordinance to constantly be making exceptions.
“But you’ve already make exceptions,” Latham said. “Just what I mean,” both Barksdale and Davis answered.
LATHAN said he had been one who argued for smaller lot sizes around the villages in the first place. “What you want us to do— go out and bulldoze up farmland?”
Walter Masterson again said he thought the rezoning would be a bad precedent. In fact, he added, he leaned more toward a five-acre lot size in agricultural areas than a two-acre lot. “When you have two-acre lots, you’re getting into sewers and roads.”
A.Y. Stokes said he was opposed to the rezoning “in the same way Walter is.” He told Luke “I don’t disagree with a thing you said, it is already developed...” But to make an exception here will just make it harder to turn down future requests for exceptions, he thought. Stokes said it would be up to the people of Amissville to initiate an effort
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