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residential business (RBI) development criteria were so strict that “you couldn’t do a thing down there...couldn’t have another retail store,” if the district was established.
Planner Newbili Miller disagreed. He told Stuart that any business in any existing RBI District (which includes the villages of Sperryville and Flint Hill) is legal in all RBI Districts, with a special use permit. Miller noted that development criteria were not as rigid for RBI as for business or agricultural districts. “Thoughts to rezone Amissville didn’t come from the Planning Commission,” Miller added. Instead, he said that the Planners were asked by the Board of Supervisors to draw boundaries for the village. “As a matter of planning, I think it’s a good idea to have the boundaries defined.”
Barksdale advised the four Amissville residents to take their objections to the rezoning before the Board of Supervisors, adding that the Planners had no authority to reconsider their original recommendation in favor of the proposal.
Boundaries Should
Be Extended
Mrs. Stuart told the Planners that she’d heard dissatisfaction over the failure of the proposed RBI boundaries to include Early’s Carpet and Belair and Lombardy restaurants. By omitting Early’s Carpet in particular, she maintained, “you’re leaving out the one productive business in Amissville that employs a lot of people.” She noted that, under their current agricultural designation, Early’s would have to go
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