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LEA, attorney for the heirs of J. L. Williams, and Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis were directed by the Board of Supervisors last Thursday to “get together and see if something can be worked out” to enable each of the seven Williams heirs to inherit a part of the 37-acre family homeplace. Rappahannock’s subdivision and zoning ordinances permit as many as five children to inherit property even if some of the five lots would be of nonconforming size. The Williams heirs had requested a re zoning of their property from agricultural to residential subdivision, in order to divide the land into lots small enough for each of the seven children to have one.
“I’ve never heard a more eloquent or compelling case for an exception,” one member of the audience said after listening to the pleas of the Williams family. The only problem with that, Supervisor Chairman Pete Luke said, is that the Williams heirs haven’t asked for an exception—they’ve asked for a rezoning. Luke said he’d have no qualms about granting an exception, since “this fits the exception idea,” but he would oppose a rezoning. That could become a precedent, he said, “and affect the rest of the ordinance.”
“We don’t care about getting rezoned,” attorney Lea said. “We just want to split the land.” The zoning administrator had advised Lea to go about it in this manner, he said.
“Well, send it back to the Planning Commission. Get Lea and Davis together and see if the two parties can’t work something out,” Herbert Foster said. And that’s what the board recommended.
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