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From Page 1 the first people to speak against granting the rezoning or subdivision exception. But after hearing later testimony, he changed his mind and asked the Supervisors to grant the exception. At the planning commission meeting last Wednesday night, Irwin withdrew his previous statement in support of the Williams request.
By granting the request, “you would be creating eight lots in an agricultural zone,” Irwin said. It’s time people stopped regarding land as a commodity to be bought, sold and traded, Irwin said. ‘‘We are only the temporary caretakers of the land.” Irwin said he agreed that the Williams family is perhaps ‘‘more deserving than most,” but he thought their request could be granted only by disregarding the ordinance, and he asked the planners not to do that.
John H. Williams, the eldest of the heirs, told Irwin that “Patrick Henry couldn’t have made a finer talk” than he had. “But when does a child lose that right to inherit?” Williams asked the planners. “It is inhuman to turn down a request like this.” Some of the heirs are “right at the door of fourscore and ten” which are all the years God has promised you, Williams said To deny them “the right to
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