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he told me it had been pointed out to him,” Kramer continued. “He didn’t tell me who did it. Whoever did also put the pencil point in,” said Kramer drawing the Planners’ attention to a pencil mark on the official zoning map one-sixteenth of an inch into the Rush River flood plain—allegedly at the spot where the mill is located.
Kramer said he subsequently rewrote the public hearing notice to read that the proposed rezoning was from agriculture to commercial excluding flood plain land except the portion of the property on which the building sits.
Then, Kramer reported, he received a second call from McNear a week after changing the advertisement. This time, McNear insisted that the ad state the rezoning was from flood plain to commercial, basing his position on consultations with Planning Commission chairman Herbert Barksdale and Commonwealth’s Attorney George Davis, Kramer said.
Kramer offered three proofs to the Planners that the old mill building isn’t in flood plain. He produced a survey done by County Engineer Fanning Baumgardner in which Baumgardner transferred lines from Rappahannock’s flood plain map to Kramer's certified survey map. Kramer maintained that Baumgardner’s map showed the mill building sitting just outside the flood plain.
He also gave the Planners a letter from District Soil Conservationist Bill Adams. After on-site analysis and observation, Adams wrote that the mill "appears to be very near to the edge of the
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