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ly, didn’t think the use permits were necessary, it was reported.
McNear is one of the owners of the Rappahannock Ski Area Inc., which is now bankrupt. Owners of the ski area have petitioned the court to sell the property in two parcels. Potential owners of the larger tract want assurance that they can include a camper trailer park in their development plans for the ski area before they sign the purchase contract. A public hearing on the use permit was held by the county board of zoning appeals. The owners of the ski area were directed to reapply under a different provision of the zoning ordinance.
Thursday’s executive session was the first time several of the Supervisors had become aware of the friction within the zoning office. Part of the problem, they were told, is the administrative difficulty of running an office which is open only two days a week and staffed by Baumgardner one day and McNear the other.
Baumgardner’s letter of resignation referred to a McNear memo. “Recent restrictions on the function of the assistant zoning administrator” and a “somewhat reduced workload” led Baumgardner to question whether the position was “justified or effective,” he said. So the Supervisors accepted Baumgardner’s resignation. Rappahannock will have only one zoning administrator, Evan McNear, and he will have no assistants.
DOWNSTAIRS in the zoning office, after the executive session upstairs in the courtroom, McNear said his dispute with Baumgardner had been “minimal” and “friendly.” McNear said he had stayed out of the matter concerning the ski area all along. He has a financial interest in the ski area and thus a conflict of inter
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