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(Continued from Page 1) prohibitive cost of attorney’s fees.
jf Why Only 20?
Chairman Gardiner asked why all the property was shown as commercial on the county's maps but only 20 acres taxed as such.
“I don’t know,” answered Rappahannock Supervisor Chairman E. P. Luke. “The property is all zoned commercial. It’s colored in on the zoning map.” He explained that the commercial designation was never approved by any local governing body since the use existed prior to the adoption of the county’s zoning and subdivision ordinances and thus came under a “grandfather clause.”
Washington doctor Werrter Krebser interjected that he’d talked to the property’s original owners and had been told that the land was zoned recreational, not commercial—a category that no longer exists under Rappahannock’s revised ordinances. Dr. Krebser maintained that Moore shouldn’t be allowed to put land to a commercial use when it had never been taxed as commercial property.
“The facts are, whether it was intended or not, it is zoned commercial,” countered attorney Flournoy
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