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residential community and promote a suitable environment for family life,” the ordinance makes no provision for residential uses by right or even with a special use permit.
In practice, zoning administrator Evan McNear applies the provisions of the ordinance’s residential district (R-l) to the residential subdivision district (RS-1). In R-l, churches are allowed by right and accordingly, McNear issued a building permit last year to NPEA for its tabernacle, bath house and pavilion on the nine-acre lot.
NPEA also has health department approval for sewage disposal for their church. In a permit issued March 24, 1978, local sanitarian Jack Lockhart authorized a septic system to handle 500 gallons of waste per day.
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According to sanitary superintendent William Burke from the health department’s Culpeper office, the permit signed by Lockhart is typical of the type issued to country churches with a congregation of between 35 and 50 persons and once or twice a week services. This system, however, would not be adequate for the 400 some persons who attended NPEA camp meetings for all-day and evening services last year, according to Burke.
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