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Developer C. L. Goode filed suit August 30 to overturn the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors recent denial of rezoning for his proposed Flint Hill subdivision.

By majority vote, the Supervisors decided August 4 to uphold the Planning Commission’s recommendation which rejected Goode’s rezoning application for 70 acres currently in an agriculture district. County ordinances required that the tract be rezoned to residential subdivision before Goode could proceed with his plans for 14 five-acre lots.

In his petition, Goode maintained that the rezoning to RS I “could lawfully have been granted under the application’’ and that the Supervisors had received no evidence that rezoning would adversely affect the public health, safety, morals or general welfare. He further stated that the county planning staff had submitted no report to either the Supervisors or the Planning Commissioners recommending denial of the application.

County ordinances provide for residential development of the area within which the subject property is located, Goode continued in the suit. He also claimed that the existing agriculture zoning on the tract bore no reasonable or substantial relationship to the suitable use of the property.

Denial of the rezoning application deprives the owner of legitimate and

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