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A REQUEST from the heirs of J. L. Williams for a rezoning and an exception to. the subdivision ordinance was denied by Rappahannock’s Supervisors at their meeting last Thursday, December 4. Attorney T. C. Lea, speaking on behalf of the Williams heirs, argued as he had at previous meetings and public hearings that Rappahannock’s ordinance is “discriminatory” against parents with more than five children. In that event, the parents, or in this case the heirs, are considered as ordinary subdividers and have to go through the subdivision application process, as required by the ordinance. The Williams heirs also requested a rezoning, from agricultural to residential, since the current zoning for their land allows subdivisions with lot sizes of no less than 25 acres.
There are six heirs to J. L. Williams who want to divide the 37 acres they inherited into seven lots. That would include a separate tract for the “homeplace” which would eventually be inherited by the child that lives the longest.
Several months ago, following public hearings sponsored by both the Supervisors and the Planning Commissioners, the Supervisors directed Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis to meet with attorney T. C. Lea and “work out a compromise” that would be acceptable to the Williams heirs and within the “spirit” of the county ordinance.
But Davis maintained all along, as he had at the beginning, that the Supervisors were in danger of “makingthe exception the rule.” And as far as he was concerned, Davis said, there is no compromise that would protect the integrity of the ordinance.
THIS PAST Thursday, Super
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