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uses allowed Dy ngnt in a commercial zone include restaurants, hotels, wholesale bakeries, service businesses, pressing and dry cleaning plants, printing plants, commercial dairies, hospitals, sanitoriums and nursing homes.
It doesn’t seem logical that a county which denied a residential development of 14 five-acre lots a half mile outside of Flint Hill would allow commercial development such wide-open latitude.
If the ski area’s 300 acres were rezoned commercial by mistake, then steps should be taken to correct the oversight. We suggest that the Supervisors take action to amend Rappahannock’s zoning ordinance to allow for a recreational district and uses. At the same time, they could approve a rezoning of Moore’s property to the new category.
The ski area has no vested interest in its commercial zoning EXCEPT on the 20 acres that have been improved and taxed at the higher commercial rate. By the managements’ own admission, they’ve paid taxes on the 280 acre balance at its original lower level.
By creating a recreational zone with specifically controlled uses and rezoning the ski area to fall into that category, the Supervisors can lay to rest fears that this proposal for a year-round recreation center constitutes an “open door” to uses that might not be in the best interests of the county.
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