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A SUIT against Rappahannock County’s Board of Supervisors has been filed in circuit court by the heirs of J.L. and Louemma Williams. The Williams heirs charge that the Supervisors’ denial of their request for a rezoning and an exception to the subdivision ordinance was “arbitrary, capricious, discriminatory and unconstitutional.” They are asking that the court declare the Supervisors’ action “null and void.”
The Williams heirs wanted to divide their parents’ 37-acre homeplace, located within the “Tiger Valley” of Rappahannock’s Hampton District, imo eight lots. That would permit one lot for each of J.L. and Louemma Williams’s six children, one lot for their foster child and a separate tract for the “homeplace” which will eventually be inherited by the child that lives the longest.
Their land is in an area of steep slopes in which lots of no less than 25 acres in sizearealiowed. There is an exception to the ordinance which allows a parent to divide as many as five lots to his children. Since the exception wouldn’t permit as many lots as the Williams wanted, they also asked for a rezoning, from agricultural to residential, so that they could apply for a subdivision, with lots of less
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