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takes a lot of land to store the type of stuff they’re handling.’’ Both the planners and the supervisors have been under the impression that the coop’s rezoning application for the property currently owned by Rayner V. Snead involves extending commercial zoning from the co-op’s new building back onto the 9.66 acres. “This is an extension of a commercial area. We’re not creating a new commercial district,” said supervisor H. B. Wood. “There’s a difference, even though I question whether they need ten acres of land.”
At Thursday’s meeting, commonwealth attorney George Davis reported, however, that the property on which the building sits is zoned industrial, not commercial.
“1 was told it was zoned commercial when we came out here to buy it,” interjected the manager of the farmers’ cooperative.
A review of maps from the zoning administrator’s office showed the lot on which the co-op building sits to be industrial.
Not Sufficient
In presenting the rezoning application to the supervisors, Bill Fletcher, attorney for the co-op, maintained that the land currently owned by the cooperative is not sufficient for business needs.
He also claimed that “the ever present problem of gasoline’*' calls for centralization so farmers and other residents of the community can purchase goods locally. Fletcher described the co-op as “a service oriented facility.” He argued that approval of the rezoning application would improve the county’s tax structure without increasing population density.
Werner Krebser, representing the Rappahannock Chapter of the Isaac Walton League, said his group recognized the coop's need for additional storage space and was “not particularly opposed” to the use planned for the 9.66 acre tract. Krebser insisted, however, that the co-op could do most of what it wanted to do under the land’s current agriculture zoning and the rest with a special use permit.
“An organization whose intent is to help the farmer should not be an organization that starts to perpetuate commercial zoning up and down the highways,” Krebser said, noting that the co-op had failed to cite a specific use for the rezoned land at both earlier meetings of the count' planning commission on thv. rezoning application.
(The planners split threeto-three in a vote on approval of the rezoning and thus sent no recommendation to the supervisors.)
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