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included when the county zoning ordinance and zonin maps were adopted in 197J “I just want to make this , matter of record,” he added.
“As 1 recall, the problem: thrashed around by th< Board dealt primarily with the rezoning of the whole area as recreational,” in terjected Commonwealth Attorney George Davis.
The entire 300 acres owned by the Ski area were considered because of problems involved in locating ski runs and slopes on the property if only part of the tract was rezoned, Davis explained. "The whole idea was that it would be for skiing,” he said.
Giving commercial zoning to the entire 300 acres left the location of future ski facilities up to the discretion of the owners, added Davis.
According to this Commonwealth’s Attorney, concern at the time of ordinance adoption centered around controlling and preventing the introduction of “hotdog and souvenir stands along the highway” leading to the ski area. The allegations that the ski area was inadvertently rezoned are ‘‘simply not true,” said Davis. "It was considered by the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors...People who weren’t there seem to know more about it than those who were there,” he concluded. The memorandum from BZA Chairman Josef Gardiner also stated that taxes at the commercial rate have been levied on only 20 acres of the 300 acre tract. Controversy over this issue should
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