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been held BEFORE the Supervisors filed a petition to intervene in the ski area suit against the BZA. As Col. Luke noted, one of the primary purposes for a joint meeting should have been to find a way around filing a suit that would pit one county body against another.
We don’t understand the Commonwealth Attorney’s insistence in filing first and then talking. He argued that there was nothing to talk about—even with the BZA’s attorney—until the intervention request was before the courts. Two county lawyers sitting in the front row of the courtroom grinned and shook their heads in amazement at the advice offered the Supervisors by their legal counsel.
We’re still shaking ours. Isn’t the purpose of a lawyer’s conference to find a way around expensive and time consuming litigation? Common sense says there’s plenty to talk about before a suit is actually filed.
It’s possible, maybe even probable, that neither side would have budged an inch if a meeting had been held before the Supervisors’ vote to file an intervention suit. However, a joint meeting before the fact would at least have indicated a willingness to work together.
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