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The Supervisors made a better-late* than-never first move towards healing the breach with the Board of Zoning Appeals at last Thursday’s meeting. Col. E. P. Luke acted on his own in approaching Chairman Josef Gardiner before the Supervisors’ session and his initiative began a dialogue that may result in a joint meeting of the two bodies.
Luke's repeated insistence that the Supervisors are obligated to pay any iegai fees incurred by the BZA in defending their denial of the ski area’s special use permit should also help to reassure the BZA members that their <;oveming body is behind them—or if not entirely supportive, then at least not squarely in the ski area camp.
It was also good to hear that the Supervisors were concerned with the BZA’s refusal to allow snow skiing in Harris Hollow. By mentioning only that aspect of the special use permit denial, it can be inferred that the Board was not opposed to the denial of the myriad of other uses requested by the Rappahannock Ski Area, including the snowless Alpine slide.
Work towards the end of divisiveness between the Supervisors and the Board of Zoning Appeals began last week. We hope it continues with a joint meeting.
But any joint meeting would have been much more meaningful if it had
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