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a nice to mane a motion not to pay that,” interjected Supervisor Clarence Baldwin when a bill from attorney Robert Fitzgerald was presented during the reading of accounts at last Thursday’s Board meeting. “It’s not fair to have the taxpayers pay the bill when county officials sue each other,” Baldwin maintained.
Fitzgerald represented the Board of Zoning Appeals in two cases—one involving the Rappahannock Ski Corporation and the second involving P. E. Steve DeMent. In both cases, the Board of Supervisors was allowed to intervene by the courts.
The Ski Corporation brought suit against the BZA after it denied the Ski Corporation's application for a special use permit to reopen the twice-bankrupt Harris Hollow ski area as a year-round recreation facility centered around a snowless Apline slide. The Supervisors entered the suit as an aggrieved party on the basis that their intentions had been to allow commercial recreational activities on the Harris Hollow site when they granted the property its commercial zoning in 1968. The suit was dropped following adoption of zoning ordinance amendments by the Supervisors in September that allow all the uses requested by the Ski C6rporation as a matter of right in commercial districts and on land over 14 percent slooe.
DeMent Case
In the second case, the
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