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With marked lack of enthusiasm, the Rappahannock supervisors took a step toward hiring a county building inspector at last Thursday’s monthly meeting of the board.
“I brought up the subject of a building inspector four years ago and you all turned it down,” chairman E. P. Luke reminded the rest of the supervisors.
The state, while aware that the county has ignored requirements for four years, took no action until recently to force compliance with provisions of the Uniform Statewide Building Code. According to Col. Luke, the attitude of the Attorney General’s office under former head Andrew Miller was to let Rappahannock “suffer the consequences” of a citizen suit.
Now, however, the director of the state Department of Housing and Community Development has served notice on Rappahannock “at the insistence of the attorney general,” Luke reported.
He read a letter from director O. Gene Dishner stating that the county must appoint a building inspector to issue certificates of occupancy and create a building code board to hear
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