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1 he Rappahannock supervisors put the cart before the horse when they granted a building permit to the Rappahannock Ski Corporation for its Alpine slide.
At the August 3 Board meeting, the Supervisors issued the permit by majority vote. At the same time, they forwarded to the Planning Commission a request for a public hearing on August 31 on zoning ordinance amendments that would allow gravity slides as a use by right in conservation and business districts. However, until those amendments are adopted, gravity slides are allowed only with a special use permit on conservation and business-zoned land, such as the Ski Area property.
If the Supervisors are set on the amendments proposed by Commonwealth Attorney George Davis, why bother with a public hearing? They've already announced their intention of adopting the ordinances by issuing the building permit, because without the amen dm aits, the permit’s not worth the paper it’s printed on.
The tangle between the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Supervisors and the Rappahannock Ski Corporation is still in litigation but at a pre-trial conference held recently in Leesburg, Judge Carlton Penn ruled that the BZA
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