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to suggestions that Mrs. Davis apply for a special use permit instead of a rezoning. In regard to Candy Coombs’ contention that commercial zoning would remove controls on the property (included in a letter to the editor printed in the Rappahannock News), Davis asked “what in hell gives her the right to control my land?” "None of them (the rezoning opponents) know what's in the application,” he continued. “None of them knows what’s in the ordinance...Maybe Dr. Krebser should see a psychiatrist to see what’s wrong with his intellect,” the Commonwealth Attorney suggested. Barksdale cautioned Davis against getting too personal in his remarks.
All Personal “It’s all personal,” interjected Mrs. Davis, standing in the back of the courtroom. “As long as there’s a free enterprise system in this county, this application should be granted,” George Davis insisted, after noting that he’d withdrawn as legal advisor to both the Planners and the Supervisors on this issue to avoid possible conflict of interest. He added that any development possibilities mentioned by opponents to the rezoning would go on his motel property not on the three and property, not on the three and front gate and "there’s nothing they can do about it,” he remarked. Luke asked if Davis was seeking a rezoning to B-2 limited “in perpetuity.”
“I’m not saying that,” Davis answered. He noted that he would always have the right to come back before the Supervisors and request another rezoning.
Fannon asked how the Planners could be sure that any future owners of the property wouldn’t put a gas station on the land, a use allowed by right if the rezoning was approved.
Davis argued that his wife’s application was for a “conditional” rezoning.
Fannon countered that he didn’t believe the Planners had the right to decide what went on a piece of property. “It's our function to decide zoning,” he maintained, and then uses listed for that zone in the county ordinance determine what can be placed on the land.
Newbill Miller agreed with Fannon, stating he, too, had problems with a limited business category asked for by Davis. "I don’t think we have that district to rezone to," Miller said.
“This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of,” interjected Mrs. Davis from the back of the courtroom. Her rezoning request met every requirement in the county ordinances, she maintained. Objections to the rezoning were from “people (who) make it a sport to come up here every time and be heard,” according to Mrs. Davis. Although “dump on George year” may have been declared, she stated, “this isn’t dump on Dorothy year.”
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