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Labowitz’s appears to have arisen over a sewage hook-up to the drainfield that serves the restaurant in the Country Store. Last April, the town council granted Labovitz a variance to subdivide the Country Store property, separating the small cottage from the larger building and allowing the addition of a bathroom to the rear of the cottage. In a letter to the council dated January 30, 1978, Labovitz noted that he'd already received permission from the Health Department to hook the cottage's sewage disposal into the restaurant’s septic Field.
At the December council meeting, O’Connell and Lynch protested the issuance of the variance, charging that Labovitz had no legal right to hook onto the restaurant’s drainfield. On Tuesday night. Lynch restated his objections, asking if failure to get approval from O’Connell and himself for the hook-up had any effect on the validity of the variance.
Miller answered that the drainfield controversy over hook-up rights was “a matter of contractual arrangement between the parties” that could not be resolved by the Council. He maintained that there was currently no business before the Washington Council that would require investigation of the difficulties between the Labovitz’s and the proprietors of The Inn. “I realize that it’s a controversial subject. There’s been a certain amount of
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