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Board of Supervisors Chairman Pete Luke, who attended the meeting and testified, suggested that Foreman make his engineering plan for something less than the total of eight acres mentioned in the Clark-Updike contract.
“You should engineer for a time limit,” added Forward.
“If we gave approval to a three-acre plot, would that help you?” asked Manwaring, noting that he'd been told that one acre would be needed for a year’s operation in a county with Rappahannock's population.
“I think that can be done,” Foreman admitted, somewhat reluctantly.
“You’re making a specious argument,” Manwaring continued. “If we set a time limit,-then engineer for it.”
“You’ve got eight acres to play with up to the date set,” added Pete Luke.
“How can you justify the use of that land that way for only 30 months?” Foreman persisted. “It is very difficult to put in a time limit; they’re too many variables.”
IT WAS BZA member George . Muth’s turn to lecture Foreman: “You’re telling Mr. Clark he can’t stand by his contract. You’re restricting his rights.”
“We heard this same kind of junk when the gasolines and powerlines came through,” Admiral Gardner commented, “when Frankie the Great pushed through these things as a wartime emergency measure. But these things do not have to be in perpetuity.”
“You could wind up with a little dump, and that’s what we don’t want,” said Foreman, returning momentarily to his original po
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