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By daphne McCullough

Rappahannock New# Staff Writer

It looks like the Board of Zoning Appeals will have to take Werner Krebser up on the offer he made four months ago and ask the doctor to spearhead a fund drive to raise money for the BZA’s legal fees.

At Thursday's Board meeting, the Rappahannock Supervisors were presented a $4,339 tab for lawyer’s fees from the BZA. They balked at coughing up the money and agreed to pay only $1,800 towards the total. In addition, Commonwealth Attorney George Davis advised the Supervisors that they couldn’t legally pay the full amount.

The issue arose at the finish of a typical summer Supervisors’ meeting that was short, quiet and routine.

“Wait a minute,” interrupted Supervisor Chairman E. P. Luke as Gerk Diane Bruce, in her reading of the monthly accounts, reached the BZA’s bill of $4,339 for attorney’s fees in the DeMent and ski area cases.

In the DeMent case, the BZA is being attacked for (1) issuing a special use permit to P. E. Steve DeMent for

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