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see anyone coming in to restore it for the fun of it... I think the building has to have a use,” he said, justifying his request for commercial zoning. “To me, the overall question is that it’s an historic building that should be saved.”
Frank Skowronski asked Kramer what plans he had for the strip of old mill property that adjoins Skowronski’s land.
“I plan to leave it as it is now,” Kramer replied.
Legal Notice?
Planner E. P. Luke questioned the legality of the notice printed in The Rappahannock News, advertising Wednesday’s public hearing.
Kramer responded that he’d tried to have the advertisement changed back to the original wording approved by the Planning Commission. He noted, however, that Barksdale and Davis insisted the rezoning notice state flood plain to commercial rather than agriculture to commercial.
Kramer reported that McNear had told him the rezoning application would be amended at the Planning Commission’s public hearing. If mistakes in the required advertisement require the public hearing to be postponed for another month, the delay will be a burden, said Kramer.
He also questioned the propriety of relying on the Commonwealth Attorney for legal advice on this issue since Davis is an adjoining landowner to the old mill property.
“That’s bad,” agreed Luke.
“If he’s trying to stop this by delay, it’s not fair to Col. Holmes (current owner of the mill property) or the buyers,” Kramer maintained.
“But if it (the rezoning advertisement) is not done correctly, then any decision we make could be upset in court,” countered Planner Newbill Miller. “I don’t think we could make a recommendation based on the existing notification. I think
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