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buried on their property, who the hell are we to say no?” maintained luke, suggesting that family graveyards be kept as a use permitted by right. He agreed that there wouldn't be any great problems with changing family graveyards to a special permitted use. “The only thing that bothers me is, who’s going to give approval?” he added.
Luke continued that he thought most special use decisions should be made by the Board of Supervisors rather than the Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA). The BZA should only rule on actual appeal cases, he maintained.
County ordinances are passed by the Board of Supervisors, the Supervisors set policy and are responsible for seeing that policies are carried out, according to Luke. “The Board of Zoning Appeals is an arm of the court,” he said. “They are not responsible to the supervisors or to the Planning Commission! Irregardless of policy, they can make decisions any way they want.”
“Non-Political”
Appointed Body The reason behind current procedure with special use permits was to “make decisions non-political,” said Miller. He added that he personally, as a former member of the Board of Supervisors, “liked to have matters of judgement go to a non-political body...It takes a lot of cheap political pressure off the Supervisors.” “People don’t get emotional until you tell them they can’t do something,’’ Miller
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