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hannock’s trash must be disposed of somewhere, and if we put up with the nuisance now, perhaps others may be agreeable toward sharing the obligation in the future.”

At the beginning of the meeting, Gardner expressed doubts that the BZA could stipulate a 30month limit on the operation. “We can’t say that forever no further use of the site will be made. But we could probably zone it for the duration of the contract. If the Supervisors haven’t done a better job in two-and-a-half years than they’ve done in the past, we’ll have the same hassle all over again.”

Baumgardner agreed that the State is requiring 20-year landfill plans from all counties.

Pete Luke reported to the BZA that at their January meeting, Rappahannock’s Supervisors had gone on record as being unanimously in support of a private landfill operation, as opposed to a county-owned and operated site. “The Board’s point of view is that we need an executive work session on the processes involved in getting permits for something like a landfill. If this is going to be exercised in public every time, we’ll have problems. If we find four or five pieces of property, all of those will have people for and against, too.”

Said Gardner: “We have persistently asked that the zoning ordinances be carried out and that we be permitted to attend your meetings, and you have persistently refused to have us sit in.”

Luke said he didn’t know about that.

“We wrote you a letter two years ago,” said Gardner.

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LUKE said that was before his time, adding: “Be my guest the first Thursday of every month at 10 o’clock it the court house.”

“My opinion,” said Gardner, “ is that the bureaucrats who wrote this (landfill) law were thinking of big cities.. .and not small counties like Rappahannock. A

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